State v. Angle

CARTER, Justice.

Defendant, Timothy John Angle, appeals from conviction and sentence for two counts of theft in the first degree, Iowa Code sections 714.1(3) and 714.1(5) (1981).

Defendant was convicted by jury verdict. He does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain those verdicts. The legal errors assigned are: (1) whether the trial court unduly limited defendant's right of cross-examination of the State’s only witness; (2) whether a mistrial should have been declared as a result of reference by the State to defendant’s failure to testify; (3) whether defendant’s trial…