State v. Griffin

REINHARD, Judge.

Defendant was found guilty by a jury of stealing property worth $150.00 or more, § 570.030, RSMo 1986, a class C felony, and sentenced by the court as a persistent offender to a term of seven years’ imprisonment to be served consecutively to a *184sentence he was serving at the time. He appeals; we affirm.

The evidence at trial was that at approximately 1:00 a.m. on June 13, 1985, as he drove past the Plaza Motor Company on Olive Street Road, Officer Ronald Cope of the St. Louis County Police Department noticed a man on top of a white Corvette on the firm’s used car lot. As Cope…