Block v. State

At the trial two certificates of court records showing alleged prior convictions of a Larry Block were admitted into evidence without objection. It is argued these were insufficient to prove the identity of Block so as to find him a repeater, and also there was no proof the prior convictions remained of record and un-reversed, as required by sec. 989.62 (2), Stats. 1

Exhibit 1 was a certified copy of a sentence imposed upon “Larry Block” by the county court of Taylor county on January 20, 1965, for theft, Taylor county being the county in which the present case was tried. Exhibit 2 was a…