People v. Hall

Defendant, Jesse Hall, Jr., was convicted following a jury trial of the offense of theft (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1985, ch. 38, par. 16 — 1(a)(1)) and sentenced to a term of two years’ imprisonment in the Department of Corrections. The indictment against the defendant alleged that the defendant had committed the theft of Polaroid film, having a value of less than $300, from K-Mart, Inc., and that the defendant had been convicted of a prior theft in Missouri less than four months earlier. Evidence concerning this prior theft was excluded from trial pursuant to the defendant’s motion in limine but was…