Court Opinion

ID: 5148095
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-02 01:42:11.317851+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:23:52.810369
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[1] MEMORANDUM OPINION
[2] Jimmy Dorrough was convicted of Grand Larceny in the District Court of Custer County. The charge arose out of taking various automobile parts from a W.C. Wells, Jr., whose hobby was rebuilding old cars. It is conceded that the parts were taken on at least three different occasions.
[3] Mr. Atwood, a salvage dealer, testified that the two tires and rims taken were worth $5.00, and all the junk, (together) taken was worth $12.00. The prosecuting witness testified that all of the items taken on the three or more occasions had a value of $75.00. This is all the evidence the State produced to bring the alleged theft under the category of Grand Larceny, or a total of items valued in excess of $20.00.
[4] This Court, in Johnson v. State, Okla. Cr. 314 P.2d 366, held the law to be:
 "Where property was taken on a number of different occasions, each taking constituted a separate and distinct offense, and a person cannot be convicted of grand larceny upon proof that the value of the entire property taken on such different occasions exceeded $20 in value." See, also, Camp v. State, 7 Okla. Cr. 531, 124 P. 331.
[5] This appears to be the law in Oklahoma. The Attorney General, in his brief, concedes this is the present law, and is decisive of this appeal.
[6] It is, therefore, the order of this Court that the evidence is not sufficient to support the charge of Grand Larceny, and that the cause be Reversed and Remanded with Instructions to Dismiss.
[7] BUSSEY and BRETT, JJ., concur. *Page 766