People v. Owens

PRESIDING JUSTICE SCOTT

delivered the opinion of the court:

Following a consolidated jury trial with his codefendant, Carloss Owens, being also his wife, the defendant, Nathaniel Owens, was convicted of retail theft (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 16A — 3(a)) and sentenced to a two-year term of imprisonment. The defendant appeals.

The State’s evidence at trial established that on April 26, 1985, two employees of Target (the store), a retail mercantile establishment, observed the defendant drive a vehicle into the store parking lot. Co-defendant Carloss exited the vehicle with Vivian Olden…