State v. Gravening

Appeal from an order of the Municipal Court of Hennepin County denying defendant’s motion for a new trial and from a judgment of conviction of theft.

Defendant, Wayne Gravening, was arrested at about 2:30 a. m. on June 18,1969, in the basement of the Plymouth Building parking garage in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. He had been apprehended in the building by its stationary engineer, Willard O. Norlin, with the assistance of the night garage manager, Gordon P. Chelson, who called the police to make the ultimate arrest. Defendant was in stocking feet when apprehended.

On August 5,1969,…