State v. Tash

TITUS, Judge.

Defendant was jury-convicted and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for stealing a bluetick coon dog, the property of Larry Wilson.

In 1972, and around June 20 or 21, defendant and his two sons, Arley and Byron, were in and near Horton, Missouri inquiring of several people about buying hunting dogs. Defendant and his two “grown boys” were traveling in a red Ford automobile bearing Kansas license plates. Chester Shields sold the trio a dog for $125 and Richard Pryor sold them a dog on a trial basis which they returned 4 or 5 days later. The three attempted to purchase a red hound…