State v. Toy

The major issue on appeal concerns the authority of a Wisconsin court to impose a sentence consecutive to a sentence earlier imposed in another state. The defendant, James Toy, maintains that Wisconsin courts are statutorily prohibited from imposing consecutive sentences in these situations. We reject his argument. We also reject his arguments relating to sufficiency of evidence and the failure to give a certain instruction to the jury.

Toy was convicted of eight armed robberies arising out of one incident. At the time sentence was imposed, Toy was serving a two-and-a-half year sentence in the…