Griggs v. State

OPINION

CONNOR, Justice.

The appellant, Marie Griggs, was convicted of larceny from the person and received a 4-year sentence with 2 years to serve and 2 years on probation. She raises three specifications of error in this appeal: a denial of due process of law in the state’s failure to transcribe the grand jury testimony; an abuse of discretion in the court’s admission of appellant’s prior misdemeanor convictions; and the imposition of an excessive sentence.

Appellant’s first claim of error is governed by our recent decision in Robinson v. State, 489 P.2d 1271 (Alaska 1971), where we held that…