On July 3, 1988, while the complainant and the defendant were standing alone outside of an Off Track Betting parlor, the complainant felt a "brush" against her pocket and immediately discovered her wallet was missing. Following the defendant, she accused him of taking her wallet. The defendant denied this and eventually ran away.
The jury's guilty verdict was set aside as legally insufficient. The fact that the defendant was seen walking away from
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