State v. Sims

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Price, J.:

Defendant has appealed from a conviction of the offense of grand larceny.

Briefly, the facts are as follow:

On the day in question defendant drove his car to a parking lot adjoining a machine shop owned by one Orser. He backed it into the lot alongside a truck owned by Orser. He was accompanied by his wife, brother, and a man by the name of Ellifrits. In the rear of the Orser truck were a large power drill, fifty feet of heavy duty extension cord, and a sledge hammer, all of which belonged to Orser. Defendant’s brother went to the machine shop…