State v. Lakes

CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was convicted of stealing over $50 (Section 560.156, RSMo. (1969)) and sentenced to five years’ imprisonment.

Defendant contends the trial court erroneously refused to suppress both physical evidence and evidence of defendant’s incul-patory statement to an arresting officer.

On February 15, 1974 patroling police officers Monroe and Oberdieck saw defendant and a companion walking away from a parked panel truck marked “Cross & Son.” The men were carrying tool boxes similarly marked. The police reversed direction and as they approached defendant he put the two…