Smith v. State

OPINION

WALKER, Presiding Judge.

The defendants below, Benny Harold Smith and Doris *119Shipley, were convicted of grand larceny in McMinn County and sentenced to three years in the penitentiary.

Their first assignment of error questions the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain their convictions.

During the night of December 17, 1967, Minnie Lou Hunter’s dress shop in Calhoun, McMinn County, was broken into and women’s clothing valued at $2,653.12 was stolen. The burglary was discovered and investigated the following morning.

On January 2, 1968, city officers searched the house in Chattanooga, where…