State v. Langston

JEFFREY W. BATES, Chief Judge.

After a jury trial, Florence Langston (Defendant) was convicted of committing the class C felony of stealing in violation of § 570.030 RSMo (2000). 1 Her conviction was based upon a verdict-directing instruction which hypothesized that she could be convicted of felony stealing if “the property so taken had a value of at least Five Hundred Dollars.... ” One of the points she advances on appeal is that the submission of this instruction was plain error because it improperly allowed jurors to convict Defendant of felony stealing without finding that she had…