Nation v. State

Pope, Judge.

Shirley Ann Nation was tried before a jury and convicted of shoplifting four pairs of athletic socks from a department store. She brings this appeal enumerating three errors. Held:

1. Appellant first contends that the trial court erred in refusing to give a requested charge that in order to convict, the jury must find that she had the “specific intent to steal” and that her actions were not “accidental or inadvertent.” The record discloses that the trial court did charge the jury on the statutory definition of shoplifting, said definition requiring inter alia a finding of intent on…