State v. Logan

KAKOHL, Judge.

Defendant John Logan was charged and found guilty by a jury of stealing, § 570.030 RSMo 1986.1 The charged crime was enhanced from a class A misdemeanor to a class C felony pursuant to § 570.040 after the state alleged and proved two prior stealing convictions. Logan also had three prior felony convictions and was thus sentenced as a prior and persistent offender to a ten (10) year term pursuant to § 558.016. He appeals on two related points. First, he argues the indictment charging him with felony stealing was “fatally defective” because it charged him with violating § 570.030…