State v. Blotzer

The defendants appeal from convictions for auto theft. The appeals were consolidated for briefing and argument in this court.

The evidence shows that on May 3, 1971, the defendants took a 1964 Chevrolet automobile owned by Charles Louis Gregory and drove it from Cozad, Nebraska, to a point approximately 15 miles east of Sterling, Colorado. They were apprehended there by a Colorado state patrolman. The defendants had left Manhattan, Kansas, on May 1, 1971, in a stolen automobile which they abandoned in Lincoln, Nebraska. They took another car and drove to Hastings, Nebraska, where they…