State v. Reid

EAGER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged by amended information with stealing merchandise of a value of more than $50 and with a prior felony conviction. After being found guilty by a jury, and after the court had found a prior felony conviction, she was sentenced to the Department of Corrections for a term of five years.

On the afternoon of March 20, 1963, Robert Holman, a buyer in the men’s department of Patterson’s Department Store in Sedalia, noticed two women looking through the men’s suits; one was rather tall with red hair, the other short and rather heavy; both were negroes. The…