State v. Celmars

BRADY, Commissioner.

This cause was tried in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction upon an information which alleged the defendant unlawfully and intentionally stole sixteen cartons of cigarettes of the value of $48.00 from Allied Super Markets, Inc., a corporation doing business as Bettendorf-Rapp. A jury was waived and upon conclusion of the trial the court entered its verdict and judgment finding the defendant guilty and sentencing him to pay a fine of $250.00 and to serve six months in the workhouse. The defendant contends the judgment should be reversed for the reason that there was…