Stapf v. State

The appellant was tried before Judge Jones, sitting without a jury, in the Criminal Court of Baltimore and was convicted of grand larceny—the theft of a second hand automobile from a dealer on whose lot it had been standing. On the day of this trial he also pleaded guilty to a charge of petty larceny— the theft of an automobile operator’s license. He appeals from this conviction on the charge of grand larceny, but not from the conviction on the other. He asserts that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction.

A review of the evidence satisfies us that it was sufficient to support…