Kier v. State

Ruffin, Judge.

A jury found Clifford Leon Kier guilty of one count each of theft by taking a farm tractor, theft by taking a motorcycle and criminal trespass. The jury acquitted Kier of taking a second farm tractor. Kier appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and the trial court’s ruling on his objection to the State’s purportedly irrelevant and prejudicial cross-examination. For reasons that follow, we affirm.

1. In reviewing Kier’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence, we do not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility.* 1 Instead, we review the evidence…