Court Opinion

ID: 9567783
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:57:41.746735+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:20:37.751753
License: Public Domain

Neely, Justice,

concurring in part and dissenting in part:

I concur with the result in this case but dissent to the logic. Under the evidence presented an instruction on joyriding was not warranted; however, under some circumstances joyriding as a lesser included offense would be a permissible verdict under an indictment for grand larceny of an automobile. Otherwise the State must elect between the two offenses when seeking an indictment, and evidence of joyriding would be an absolute defense to grand larceny while, ridiculously enough, grand larceny would be an absolute defense to joyriding.