State of W. Va. v. Fitch

Neely, Chief Justice:

This is an appeal from a grand larceny conviction in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County. Defendant was apprehended near the door of a department store with a transparent bag full of unpurchased merchandise. A juvenile who accompanied him to the store and who had an identical, transparent bag also full of unpurchased merchandise, dropped his bag and ran away, but shortly afterwards was apprehended on the street. The security officer took the defendant to a separate room where the officer emptied the bags and commingled the contents. At trial no evidence was admitted which…