State v. Sloan

LOWENSTEIN, Judge.

The defendant Sloan was jury convicted on one count of stealing property (livestock) of over $150 as contained in Section 570.030 RSMo.19781 and sentenced to three years confinement in the Division of Corrections. This charge had been severed from another count charging stealing a combine for which Sloan had been found guilty, the appeal of which was affirmed by this court. The present ease was tried before Judge Bellamy pursuant to a Supreme Court order transferring him to sit as judge of the 8th Circuit, pursuant to Sloan’s motion for change of judge which followed his…