State v. Giles

SUMMERS, Justice.

A bill of information filed in East Baton Rouge Parish on May 25, 1966 charged that between January I, 1965 and April 12, 1966 appellant Lee Wilton Giles committed a series of thefts of merchandise and cash valued at $7,700, the property of D. H. Holmes Co., Ltd. After a trial by jury, Giles was found guilty of the theft of property having a value of $2,492.17 and sentenced to be confined in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at hard labor for five years.

From January 1, 1965 through April 12, 1966 Giles was employed by D. H. Holmes Co., Ltd., in Baton Rouge, first as manager of…