State v. Stark

KAROHL, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of receiving stolen property, a violation of § 570.080 RSMo 1978, and was sentenced in accord with the jury verdict of four months in the Warren County jail.

The state’s opening statement serves to describe the factual setting necessary to determine defendant’s contention that the court erred in failing to grant a motion for directed verdict at the close of the state’s case. Defendant offered no evidence.

In its opening statement, the state offered to prove that on July 18, 1980, James Stark, defendant’s husband, bought a 1968 Mustang automobile…