State v. Jordan

REINHARD, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted of stealing a motor vehicle, in violation of § 570.030 RSMo. 1978 and was sentenced as a persistent offender to seven years with the Department of Corrections. He appeals. We affirm.

Defendant has not challenged the sufficiency of the evidence. Substantial evidence was introduced from which a jury could have found that on June 23, 1980, at approximately 2:15 a.m., defendant stole a 1979 Oldsmobile Cutlass belonging to Mr. Robert Kessler from the parking lot of the apartment complex in which Mr. Kessler lived. Defendant did not testify but did…