State v. Brown

BILLINGS, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Hubert Brown was found guilty by a Scott County jury of stealing property of a value of more than $150 and sentenced by the court as a persistent offender to a six-year term in the custody of the Department of Corrections. We affirm.

The state’s evidence was that defendant and a companion stole a motor truck. Defendant offered no evidence.

The jury verdict, arrived at in ten minutes, was returned February 27, 1980. No application for an extension of time within which to file a motion for new trial was filed by the defendant but the court announced defendant…