State v. Hunter

STEPHAN, Presiding Judge.

After a change of venue from Franklin County, defendant was tried and found guilty in Gasconade County of receiving stolen property of a value in excess of $150.00 in violation of § 570.080 RSMo 1986, a Class C felony. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment after he was determined to be a prior offender. Defendant appeals the conviction and sentence; we affirm.

The victim, Albert Tessmer, owned a home in Beaufort, Missouri, where he lived alone. Mr. Tessmer, who was seventy-eight years of age at the time of trial, did not stay at his home at night because…