State v. Etheridge

Armstrong, J. †

The defendant, Jack Etheridge, and his wife, Joyice, were charged by information with two counts of grand larceny by check. Count two was dismissed on a challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence and we are not here concerned with it. The jury found the defendant, Jack Etheridge, guilty of count one. The following facts are pertinent to his appeal from the judgment entered by the trial court.

In late November, 1966, defendant and his wife moved to this state from the state of Virginia, after a 2-month stopover in Florida. In December, 1966, defendant’s wife opened a bank…