State v. Ross

SNYDER, Judge.

Charles Ross appeals from a judgment after a bench trial convicting him of tampering in the second degree, § 569.090 RSMo.Cum.Supp. (1984). The court imposed a 30-day suspended sentence, placed appellant on probation for two years, and as a condition of probation ordered restitution of the cost of the electricity used as a result of the tampering. The judgment is affirmed.

Appellant lived at 4127 Westminster in St. Louis. He was permitted to stay there without paying rent. The building belonged to Mary Hyde. See State v. Hyde, 682 S.W.2d 103 (Mo.App.1984).

No one in the house had…