Opinion
[No. 204, September Term, 1964.]
Decided March 4, 1965.
CRIMINAL LAW — Larceny Of Two Automobiles, Gasoline Credit Card And Vehicle Registration — False Pretenses By Use Of Credit Card — Evidence Sufficient To Warrant Convictions. p. 654
S.K.S.
Decided March 4, 1965.
Appeal from the Criminal Court of Baltimore (HARLAN, J.).
William E. Teves, III, was convicted of larceny of two automobiles, larceny of a gasoline credit card and a vehicle registration card, and of false pretenses by the trial court, sitting without a jury, and from the judgments entered thereon, he appeals.
Affirmed.
Submitted to HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY, SYBERT and OPPENHEIMER, JJ.
Submitted on brief by Stanley J. Schapiro for appellant.
Submitted on brief by Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General, Carville M. Downes, Assistant Attorney General, Charles E. Moylan, Jr. and John Hackett, State's Attorney and Assistant State's Attorney, respectively, for Baltimore City, for appellee.
The appellant, Teves, who was convicted in a non-jury trial of the larceny of two automobiles, of the larceny of a gasoline credit card and a vehicle registration card from another car, and of two charges of false pretenses by using the credit card, contends on this appeal that the evidence was insufficient to support the convictions.
The State's evidence showed that the automobiles were stolen; that a witness saw the appellant enter one of the vehicles and drive off; that he was arrested after beginning to drive off in the second car; that the credit card was stolen and that the appellant used it twice to obtain gasoline from service stations, signing the name of the owner of the card, and that he had it in his possession when apprehended. Manifestly, the evidence was sufficient to warrant the convictions.
Judgments affirmed.