State v. Abbott

ELLISON, Judge.

The appellant was charged by information with the offense of larceny of a motor vehicle in Nodaway County of the value of more than $30 cm or about December 6, 1952, in violation of Section 560.165 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S., together with four prior convictions under the habitual criminal act, Section 556.280 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S. The punishment assessed by the jury was 25 years imprisonment in the penitentiary. That is the maximum punishment fixed by Sec. 560.165, supra, for the larceny of a motor vehicle of the above value, and would have supported the verdict even in the absence of…