State v. Grinolds

This ease involves the habitual criminal act. ORS ch 168. The defendant appeals from a judgment imposing on him a ten year sentence permitted by ORS 168.031 which provides the penalty for one convicted of a fourth felony. Prior to conviction in the instant case the defendant was convicted of three crimes in Minnesota. The trial court found that these were crimes which, if committed within this state, would have been felonious. The judgment of the trial court is challenged by this appeal.

It is the settled law of Oregon that conviction of a crime in another “state, government or country” cannot…