State v. Barnes

Defendant appeals from judgments of conviction entered in two separate criminal actions which were consolidated at trial and on appeal. Defendant challenges the sentences imposed and the failure to merge the two offenses into one conviction.

In case 81-1347, defendant was convicted of theft in the first degree, ORS 164.055, and sentenced to a term of three years imprisonment and ordered, as a condition of parole, to make restitution to the victim and to pay costs. In case 81-1805, defendant was convicted of forgery in the second degree, ORS 165.007, and sentenced to one year in the county jail…