State v. Fields

SHERAN, Chief Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of a charge of theft over $150, Minn.Stat. § 609.52, subd. 2(1) and 3(2) (1980), based on. the testimony of employees of a Minneapolis store who saw defendant take a television set from the store without paying for it on the evening of February 11, 1980. The trial court sentenced defendant to a limited prison term of 3 (rather than 5) years, but made the term consecutive to a previously imposed sentence for a prior conviction. On this appeal, defendant claims he should receive a new trial because the trial court denied his request for…