State v. Davis

TITUS, Judge.

A Barton County jury found defendant guilty of 13 counts of felonious stealing by deceit. § 570.030 1 In accordance with the verdicts, the court sentenced defendant to consecutive terms of four years’ imprisonment on one count, three years on another count and two years on each remaining count. Defendant appealed.

Alice Cale, a widow who was 74 years old in January 1983 when the cause was tried, lived alone on a farm northwest of Liberal. Albeit defendant claimed to Mrs. Cale they had met before, Mrs. Cale had no remembrance of defendant until in early 1980 when he started making…