State v. Henderson

DALTON, Judge.

Jesse Henderson was convicted of stealing from a person, as charged in an information filed in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, and, in conformity to the verdict of the jury, he was sentenced to six-years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. See Sections 560.156 and 560.161 RSMo 1949, as amended Laws 1955, p. 507, and Laws 1957, p. 374, V.A.M.S. He has appealed from the judgment entered against him, but the State contends that this Court has no jurisdiction of the appeal because the appeal was not timely taken.

The transcript on appeal, filed in this Court on July…