State v. Rober

DOYLE, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of grand larceny in a trial by a jury in the Circuit Court of Minnehaha County, South Dakota.

On September 18, 1970, an appliance dealer purchased two new color TV sets from Warren Supply Company in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. The dealer, after placing the two TV sets in the box of his pickup truck, parked the truck in the parking lot behind a Sioux Falls bar. When the dealer returned to his truck, some two hours later, the TV sets were gone.

That same evening a Sioux Falls resident purchased a color TV set for $75, plus a trade-in of a used TV set. She…