State v. White

EDWIN H. SMITH, Judge.

Clifford L. White appeals his jury-tried conviction in the Circuit Court of Callaway County for tampering in the first degree, § 569.080.1(2),1 for which he was sentenced to five years of imprisonment. Appellant was charged with knowingly possessing a motor vehicle without the consent of the owner, Westminster College. In his sole point on appeal, appellant claims that the evidence was insufficient for a reasonable jury to convict him of tampering as charged, in that there was no evidence to establish the requisite element that he did not have the consent of the “owner”…