State v. Hood

CROW, Presiding Judge.

Dorothy V. Hood (“defendant”), charged with the class A misdemeanor of stealing property of the value of less than $150, § 570.030, RSMo 1978, as amended by Laws 1981, p. 638, was tried by the court without a jury, found guilty, and sentenced to 6 months’ imprisonment. Inasmuch as one of her assignments of error is that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction, a synopsis of the testimony is required.

Paul Frederick Smith, security officer at the K-Mart store in Poplar Bluff, testified that while he had the automotive section of the store under surveillance…