State v. Mercer

KRUCKER, Judge.

Defendant, Mike Walter Mercer, and one Joseph Lee Schmidgall, were jointly informed against for the crime of grand theft in violation of A.R.S. § 13-661, § 13— 663, as amended, and § 13-671, as amended. From a conviction and a judgment suspending the imposition of sentence for five years, defendant appeals.

Briefy, the facts are as follows. On January 22, 1969, the defendant and his co-defendant, Mr. Schmidgall, drove into a service station and offered to sell some tires to one Joseph Skinner. Skinner declined to huy the tires for the reason that they looked like some belonging…