State v. Rice

OPINION

PEAY, Judge.

The defendant was indicted on January 2, 1996, on charges of theft of property valued at more than one thousand dollars ($1000) but less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000), burglary, theft of property valued at under five hundred dollars ($500), and possession of burglary tools. The first theft charge was severed from the others and in February 1996, a jury convicted the defendant of the remaining three charges.1 The trial court then sentenced the defendant to an effective sentence of two years. In this appeal as of right, the defendant challenges the sufficiency of the…