State v. Alexander

Davis, J.:

The defendant, Virgil K. Alexander, appeals a jury conviction for felony theft. K.S.A. 1986 Supp. 21-3701. The trial court sentenced defendant to one to five years’ imprisonment. Defendant raises five issues on appeal, the most significant of which is whether the trial court erred by allowing the jury to consider sales tax as part of the value of the property he was charged with stealing.

On December 19, 1984, at approximately 7:00 p.m., Donald Brooks, a Prairie Village, Kansas, police officer, joined two other Prairie Village officers at a shopping center at 71st and Mission Road.…