Moehring v. Commonwealth

*566HARRISON, R.J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The defendant, William Eugene Moehring, contends that the evidence is insufficient to sustain his conviction of grand larceny.

On Saturday night, March 22, 1980, Samuel Faison, then a resident of Portsmouth, attended a private party near Smithfield. Faison drank heavily at the party and either “fell asleep or passed out.” When he awakened between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m. and discovered that he had no transportation to Portsmouth, he started hitchhiking.

At approximately 6 a.m. Sunday morning, March 23, James Keeling, a commercial fisherman, drove his…