Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama February 24, 1981 (Thomas v. State)

Theft of property in the first degree — habitual criminal treatment; sentence; life imprisonment. Around 6:45 A.M., on January 3, 1980, John Wood, president of Wood Fruitticher Grocery Company, arrived at his place of business in Birmingham and discovered one *Page 1107 of his delivery trucks was missing. He reported the theft to the police. Later in the morning, Nasrin Murphy, Jr.