Boone v. State, CR77-237
| Decision Date | 17 July 1978 |
| Docket Number | No. CR77-237,CR77-237 |
| Citation | 264 Ark. 169,568 S.W.2d 229 |
| Court | Arkansas Supreme Court |
| Parties | Johnny BOONE, Jr., Appellant, v. STATE of Arkansas, Appellee. |
David F. Guthrie, El Dorado, for appellant.
Bill Clinton, Atty. Gen., by Joyce Williams Warren, Asst. Atty. Gen., Little Rock, for appellee.
On June 21, 1976, a jury found appellant guilty of burglary Ark.Stat.Ann. § 41-1001 (Repl.1964), and grand larceny, Ark.Stat.Ann. § 41-3901 (Repl.1964). Following the introduction of five (5) prior convictions by the State, the jury assessed appellant's punishment at thirty-one and one-half (311/2) years imprisonment for both the burglary and the grand larceny convictions. The trial court directed the sentences to be served consecutively, making a total of sixty-three (63) years, in the Arkansas Department of Correction. From these convictions comes this appeal.
Appellant's court-appointed counsel, who also represented appellant at trial, has filed a motion to withdraw as attorney of record, but in compliance with Anders v. California, 386 U.S. 738, 87 S.Ct. 1396, 18 L.Ed.2d 493 (1967), has filed a brief stating there is no merit to the appeal. On May 8, 1978, appellant filed a pro se brief alleging several points of error. The State concurs with appellant's counsel that there is no merit to this appeal.
Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence relating to both convictions. Evidence was adduced at trial that the prosecuting witness' mobile home was burglarized while he was away from home on the night of August 15, 1975. A gold pocket watch was the only item taken in the burglary. Later that night appellant, according to the testimony of a thirteen-year-old brother of a friend of appellant's, threw the pocket watch onto the parking lot of Church's Chicken in El Dorado. The next morning an employee of Church's Chicken found the pocket watch, and the employee's manager took the watch to a jeweler to have it repaired. The police recovered the pocket watch from the employee, and the watch was identified by the prosecuting witness as the watch that was taken in the burglary. "Possession of property recently stolen from burglarized premises, not satisfactorily explained to a jury, is sufficient to support a verdict of guilt of both the burglary and (the) larceny, even though there is no other evidence to show that the possessor had committed the crimes with felonious intent, either in person or by being present aiding, abetting and assisting another." Williams v. State, 258 Ark. 207, 523 S.W.2d 377 (1975). See also Klimas v. State, 259 Ark. 301, 534 S.W.2d 202 (1976) and Taylor v. State, 254 Ark. 620, 495 S.W.2d 532 (1973). We find the evidence sufficient to sustain the burglary conviction.
In reference to the sufficiency of the evidence for the grand larceny conviction, the prosecuting witness testified that he had received the pocket watch as a gift from a friend. The friend's children ware so excited about the gift that they presented it to the prosecuting witness unwrapped with the price tag still attached to it. The price tag stated that the watch cost "a hundred and nineteen and some change." No other evidence of value was presented. Since there was no objection raised regarding the admissibility of this evidence at the time it was offered, it was sufficient to establish that the value of the watch was in excess of thirty-five dollars ($35.00),...
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