People v. Riddle

Defendant Harry Riddle was found guilty by a jury of theft of property valued at over $150 in the Circuit Court of Franklin County. Defendant presents two questions for review: whether the trial court erred in failing to dismiss the jury or return it for further deliberations when two jurors expressed their assent to the verdict in an unorthodox manner, and whether the trial court’s sentence requiring defendant to serve 52 consecutive weekends in jail and to pay a *3000 fine as conditions of his probation was harsh and out of proportion to the nature of the offense.

During the trial of this case…