State v. Johnson

PINCH, Senior Judge.

This opinion, written on recent reassignment, involves a case wherein defendant was found guilty by a jury of receiving stolen property and was sentenced to imprisonment for four years. She appealed to the Missouri Court of Appeals, Eastern District, which reversed. We ordered the case transferred and we now decide it as though here on direct appeal. Mo.Const. Art. V, § 10. We affirm.

On June 9, 1975, detectives of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department received a telephone call from a confidential *256informant whom these officers had known for about a year and a half.…