[Download] "Deja v. State" by Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Deja v. State
- Author : Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia
- Release Date : January 27, 1969
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 52 KB
Description
Plaintiff in error, Roger Deja (hereinafter referred to as the "defendant") was convicted of operating a motor vehicle without the owners consent. Testimony at the time of trial established that the yellow 1962 Chevrolet four-door sedan of Eugene Helminski was stolen from a south side parking lot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the morning of March 5, 1968. Helminski reported the theft, took the bus home, spotted his car with more than one person in it when he got off the bus. Harry Daroszewski, the police officer who located the car, found only one person in the car, a juvenile, sitting behind the wheel. The juvenile testified that the defendant had been driving the car, had stopped and asked the juvenile if he wanted to go for a ride. At the trial the defendant testified that the juvenile had been driving the car, had stopped and asked the defendant if he wanted to go for a ride. The defendant left the car at the Herl Company employment office where he went to apply for a job. It was there he was arrested. While in the police squad car, the defendant threw a key onto the floor of the squad car, which key fitted the stolen automobile. Defendant stated that was a key to his sisters car which defendant was to give to her son.