State v. Morrison

PREWITT, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of stealing, § 570.030, RSMo 1978, and sentenced to one year in the county jail. Appellant was charged with appropriating 84,991 pounds of poultry owned by Hudson Foods, Inc. (Hudson).

Hudson had made an oral agreement with Cowboy Poultry Processing, Inc. (Cowboy) for it to process chickens for Hudson. Appellant was the president of Cowboy. Its plant was located in Monett. Hudson is headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas. The president of Hudson testified that after the processing the chickens were to be put in frozen storage in Monett. Instead of that…