State v. Kleen

SEILER, Judge.

This is an appeal from conviction on an insufficient funds check charge, Sec. 561.-460, R.S.Mo.1969, V.A.M.S. Since this ap peal was pending here on January 1, 1972, the effective date of the 1970 amendment to the judicial article, the appeal comes within our exclusive jurisdiction as set by Art. V, Sec. 3, Mo.Const.1945, V.A.M.S., as it existed prior to the amendment.

Defendant, a resident of Nevada, Missouri, was in the business of buying and selling truck loads of grain and meal. He signed a check on Citizens State Bank of Nevada, dated February 17, 1970, and gave it to his…