Court Opinion

ID: 9569729
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 20:16:45.364278+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:03:51.645061
License: Public Domain

Hicks, J.
(dissenting) — I dissent. If I give permission to someone to use my automobile until noon within the city of Yakima and I find it abandoned some weeks later in Wheatridge, Colorado, I have no difficulty in determining that the vehicle was taken without my permission. In this case, however, the majority says the thief goes free because the wrong statute was selected under which to charge. In my mind, there is no question that appellant Clark took Dennis Noll's car without his permission. That is how Clark was charged and that is what the jury found. I would affirm the judgment entered by the trial court.