State v. Diamond

REINHARD, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of the offense of stealing, a violation of § 570.030, RSMo. 1978, and was sentenced as a persistent offender to fifteen years with the Missouri Department of Corrections. He appeals. We affirm.

The state’s evidence established that at about 5:10 a.m. on May 13, 1980, William Record parked his 1979 blue and silver Chevrolet pickup truck on a Mohr-Value department store parking lot in Sullivan, Missouri. He was picked up at the lot, along with other riders, by a commuter van and taken to his job at the Chrysler Assembly Plant in Fenton, Missouri. At…