State v. Counts

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant, Eugene Kelly Counts, was convicted after a jury trial of stealing. § 570.030, RSMo (1978). He was sentenced as a prior and persistent offender to ten years’ imprisonment. On appeal defendant claims the trial court erred in (1) overruling his motion for continuance based on the failure to provide him with a transcript of the preliminary hearing in a timely manner, (2) overruling his motion for continuance which asked for more time to find several witnesses, (3) limiting defense counsel’s *144voir dire examination concerning defendant’s prior criminal record, and (4) in…