Opinion ID: 1905151
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: pickles:

Text: Petitioner Pickles was charged by Information with the offense of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony, to-wit: grand larceny, and was found guilty as charged by jury verdict. Pickles was subsequently sentenced to serve ten years at hard labor in the State penitentiary. Pickles appealed, contending that the evidence adduced at trial was insufficient to sustain the conviction because the State failed to prove that the market value of the property at the time of the taking was $100 or more. In affirming the conviction, the District Court agreed that there was no satisfactory recognition of the burden of the prosecution to prove the felonious intent of Pickles and held that, despite the failure of the prosecution to acknowledge its burden of proof of market value, the evidence established beyond reasonable doubt that the value of the property stolen was in excess of $100. The court noted that among other property missing was a new typewriter which was delivered the same day as the burglary and which cost approximately $300. At the trial both the treasurer and the president of the Naples Lumber and Supply Company testified that two cash boxes, a check writing machine, a typewriter and a partial box of blank checks were missing after the burglary of the office where they worked. The treasurer did not testify whether there was money in the cash boxes; however, the president made a rough estimate that there was anywhere from $72 to $100 in the boxes. The check writing machine had a sentimental value of $50. The typewriter which had been delivered the same day as the burglary had a cost value of $275 or $300. No evidence as to the value of the other property inside the building was adduced, nor was Pickles caught inside the building.