Case Name: LOY HARRINGTON v. STATE
Court: Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Oklahoma
Decision Date: 1933-08-04
Citations: 55 Okla. Crim. 27
Docket Number: No. A-8532
Parties: LOY HARRINGTON v. STATE.
Judges: DAVENPORT and CHAPPELL, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Oklahoma Criminal Reports
Volume: 55
Pages: 27–28

Head Matter:
LOY HARRINGTON v. STATE.
No. A-8532.
Aug. 4, 1933.
Rehearing Denied Aug. 11, 1933.
(28 Pac. [2d] 596.)
A. C. Brewster, for plaintiff in error.
J. Berry King, Atty. Gen., and Smith C. Matson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

Opinion:
EDWARDS, P. J.
Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Mayes county of grand larceny, and was sentenced to serve a term of one year in the state penitentiary.
Plaintiff in error was charged with the larceny of a pistol of an alleged value of $25. The testimony is challenged as insufficient, and, while not overwhelming, it is nevertheless ample to support a verdict of guilty.
Upon the question of the value of the property stolen, however, we think it is not clearly proven that it was of a value exceeding $20. The testimony is that the pistol was a secondhand automatic, somewhat out of repair, and is valued by one witness as low as $7. The principal witness for the state testified that it had a. value, "something about $25." This proof of value is too- uncertain to- support the higher grade of larceny, but is sufficient to support a conviction for petit larceny. The judgment is therefore modified from grand larceny to the included offense of petit larceny, and the punishment fixed at a fine of $100, and a' term of 30 days in the county jail. Lebo v. State, 40 Okla. Cr. 116, 267 Pac. 288; Mayberry v. State, 44 Okla. Cr. 134, 279 Pac. 934.
As modified, the case is affirmed.
DAVENPORT and CHAPPELL, JJ., concur.