STATE OF MISSOURI v. JAMES AARON LOWE

STATE OF MISSOURI, ) ) Respondent, ) ) vs. ) No. SD35286 ) JAMES AARON LOWE, ) FILED: January 22, 2019 ) Appellant. ) APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF TANEY COUNTY Honorable Douglas P. Bacon, Judge AFFIRMED James Lowe appeals his $42.43 gas-pump drive-off stealing conviction. We begin with the state’s request to invoke the escape rule, which gives us discretion to dismiss appeals of defendants who abscond after conviction. See State v. Carter,

523 S.W.3d 590, 597

(Mo.App. 2017); State v. Thomas,

466 S.W.3d 44, 47

(Mo.App. 2015). After the August 14 guilty verdict, 1 the court continued Lowe on…