State v. Chapman

STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Defendant Arthur Chapman has appealed from the judgment of the Circuit Court of Texas County whereby he was found guilty of stealing a motor vehicle and sentenced to confinement for two years in the penitentiary. He has filed no brief in this court. The sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged, and the statement of the facts may be brief.

On Sunday, March 11, 1962, at 5:30 o’clock in the afternoon Donald Ellis parked his father’s 1957 Plymouth automobile in front of his home in Cabool, Missouri. The next morning the automobile was gone, and no one, including…