State v. Cardwell

On April 21, 1932, appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court of Taney County, Missouri, on a charge of grand larceny, the stealing of an automobile. The punishment was fixed at ten years' imprisonment in the penitentiary, the maximum prescribed for the offense. [Sec. 4065, R.S. 1929.] After appellant's motion for a new trial had been overruled, he was sentenced. From this sentence he has appealed. The information upon which appellant was tried was based upon Section 4461, Revised Statutes 1929, in that in addition to the charge of grand larceny it charged that appellant had previously been…