Bibb v. State
Bibb v. State
Opinion of the Court
Appellant was convicted of grand larceny of an automobile and sentenced to impris
According to the evidence for the State without which there could have been no conviction of defendant in this case, the automobile was stolen during the course of the same burglary of which he has been convicted. The particular automobile was in one of the driveways of the automobile sales company, at the time according to the evidence, defendant broke into the office of the company, obtained keys to automobiles and promptly thereafter drove away from the establishment in the automobile that he allegedly stole. According to testimony of Kenneth Starks, the strongest witness for the State, the following occurred:
“Q Now, I will call your attention to the early morning hours before daylight on October 10, 1975. Were you with Gus Bibb then?
“A Yes.
“Q Where were you, Kenneth?
“A At his house.
“Q Where were you before then?
“A At home.
“Q Okay. Where did you go when you left Gus’s house?
“A Went downtown.
“Q Where did you go downtown?
“A To Courtesy Ford.
“Q You went to Courtesy Ford?
“A Yes.
“Q Was it opened or closed?
“A Closed.
“Q What happened when you got out at Courtesy Ford?
“A Gus T. broke in.
“Q How did he get in?
“A With a board.
“Q What did he do?
“A He busted the window out.
“Q Kenneth, what did you do? What happened after Gus broke the window out there at Courtesy Ford?
“A He took the keys.
“Q What keys?
“A A cardboard full of keys.
“Q What did he do with them?
“A He took them and took a Riviera and we all got in the Riviera.
“Q Was that a 1970 Buick Riviera? [The particular automobile involved in this case].
“A Yes.”
Code 1940, T. 15, § 287, provides as follows:
Any act or omission declared criminal and punishable in different ways by different provisions of law, shall be punished only under one of such provisions, and a conviction or acquittal under any one shall bar a prosecution for the same act or omission under any other provision.”
Intent to steal or commit a felony is an essential part of the gravamen of the crime of burglary. Wicks v. State, 44 Ala. 398, 400; Holland v. State, 247 Ala. 53, 22 So.2d 519; Aiola v. State, 39 Ala.App. 215, 96 So.2d 816. In the other case to which we have referred and in which appellant herein was convicted of burglary, the intent charged and claimed was the intent to steal, the same intent that formed an essential element of the crime of larceny of which he was convicted in the instant ease. In Yelton v. State, 56 Ala.App. 272, 321 So.2d 234, cert. denied, 294 Ala. 745, 321 So.2d 237, it was held that a final judgment of conviction of murder that was the immediate product of a burglary precluded a subsequent trial for and conviction of the burglary, wherein it was charged that defendant broke and entered with intent to murder. On application for rehearing, the State interposed Gordon v. State, 71 Ala. 315, in which it was held that a conviction of the larceny that one intended to commit at the time of the breaking and entry of a burglary is not a bar to a prosecution for the burglary. It was concluded, however, that
We follow Yelton, supra, in holding that a final conviction of burglary constitutes a bar to defendant’s prosecution for the larceny charged in this case. In the light of Burress v. State, 56 Ala.App. 414, 321 So.2d 752, and the fact that it now appears that any and all questions as to the efficacy of the conviction and sentence in the burglary case have been finally resolved by an affirmance and the expiration of time for an application for rehearing, the judgment of conviction in this case should be affirmed but the case should be remanded for the rendition of an order that the sentence in this case shall run concurrently with the sentence in the other stated case of appellant — defendant.
The foregoing opinion was prepared by Supernumerary Circuit Judge LEIGH M. CLARK, serving as a judge of this Court under Section 2 of Act No. 288 of July 7, 1945, as amended; his opinion is hereby adopted as that of the Court.
Judgment of conviction affirmed; cause remanded for concurrent sentence.
AFFIRMED: REMANDED FOR CONCURRENT SENTENCE.
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