Randall v. State

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

After a jury trial in the district court, appellant Brent Carey Randall was convicted of petty larceny 1 and assault and battery. 2 The superior court affirmed. Randall appeals these convictions, alleging that the state failed to prove a prima facie case of petty larceny and that prosecutorial misconduct denied him a fair trial.

Bobby Gene Stump, a substitute security guard at the Anchorage Ramada Inn, testified that on the night of March 28,1976, he observed a car pull into the hotel parking lot. It appeared to him that when the occupants of the car saw a police vehicle…