State v. Hackney

LAVORATO, Justice.

The defendant, Lavern Mardell Hackney, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict convicting him of theft in the fourth degree in violation of Iowa Code sections 714.1(1) and 714.2(4) (1985). Hackney was convicted of the theft of sixty rings of bologna with an estimated value of $83.40. He claims the trial court abused its discretion in permitting the State to impeach him under Iowa Rule of Evidence 609(6) with a fifteen-year-old larceny conviction. The basis of his complaint is that the court did not expressly find on the record that the probative value of the…