People v. Althide

Following a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Hancock County, defendant was convicted of theft over *150. He was sentenced to probation for one year and ordered to pay restitution of *440 and a fine of *2,000.

The undisputed facts of this case are relatively simple. At about 1 a.m. on April 23, 1976, four men, Bret Clay Wildrick, Brad Rettig, Seldon Conover and Robin Brotherton, stole eight hogs from the farm of Harold Brackensick. Somewhere between 1 a.m. and 2 a.m. on the same night three of the men, Wildrick, Rettig and Conover, sold eight hogs to the defendant, Gail Althide, a self-employed area…