State v. Magers

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal from sentence and judgment of six years’ imprisonment, imposed under Second Offender Act, after jury found appellant, Richard Magers, guilty of receiving stolen property.

On October 29, 1967, Kathryn Ray parked her 1965 Chevrolet Bel-Air sedan on the parking lot at her place of employment in Centerville, Iowa. When she came out, the vehicle was missing.

In December, 1967, James H. Grubb, Jr., the son-in-law of Mrs. Ray and a student at Northeast Missouri State College in Kirksville, saw an auto in a filling station at Kirksville which he believed was Mrs. Ray’s…