State v. LaFreniere

Pursuant to verdict, the defendant-appellant, Michael LaFreniere, was adjudged guilty of theft by receiving stolen property, in violation of Neb. Rev. Stat. § 28-517 (Reissue 1989). He assigns but one error, the district court’s determination that the evidence is sufficient to support the conviction. The record sustains the assignment, and we thus reverse and remand with direction that the information be dismissed.

The charge stems from the State’s claim that on October 17, 1990, LaFreniere sold approximately 720 pounds of uninsulated copper wire, owned by Union Pacific Railroad, with the…