State v. Moore

TURNAGE, Judge.

Francis Moore was found guilty by jury of stealing property valued at over $150, and a sentence of seven years imprisonment was recommended. The court found Moore to be a persistant offender, and sentenced him to fifteen years imprisonment. On this appeal, Moore contends that the State failed to disclose certain information to him, and thus prejudiced him by depriving him of an opportunity to prepare a defense. Reversed and remanded.

At approximately noon on April 9,1980, a neighbor of Clifford McCaslin noticed two men carrying a box from Mr. McCaslin’s Kansas City home to a…