State v. Price

GAITAN, Judge.

Defendant, Myron M. Price, was convicted by a jury of stealing, in violation of § 570.030 RSMo 1986, and received a sentence of two years. The defendant appeals his conviction, contending that the trial court erred in: (1) overruling defendant’s motion to dismiss because of the prosecution’s promise not to file the charge of stealing in return for the defendant’s guilty plea in an earlier, unrelated case; (2) denying defendant’s challenge for cause of a venireperson who knew two of the prosecution’s witnesses; and (3) overruling defendant’s motion for mistrial when a witness for…