STATE v. HACKNEY

No. 85-1300.

397 N.W.2d 723 (1986)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Lavern Mardell HACKNEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

December 17, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles L. Harrington, Appellate Defender, and B. John Burns, Asst. Appellate Defender, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Ann DiDonato and Richard Bennett, Asst. Attys. Gen., John Criswell, Co. Atty., and Kevin Parker, Asst. Co. Atty., for appellee.

Considered by REYNOLDSON, C.J., and HARRIS, SCHULTZ, LAVORATO, and NEUMAN, JJ.


LAVORATO, Justice.

The defendant, Lavern Mardell Hackney, appeals from a judgment entered on a jury verdict convicting him of theft in the fourth degree in violation of Iowa Code sections 714.1(1) and 714.2(4) (1985). Hackney was convicted of the theft of sixty rings of bologna with an estimated value of $83.40. He claims the trial court abused its discretion in permitting the State to impeach him under Iowa Rule of Evidence 609(b) with a fifteen-year-old larceny...

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