State v. Garr

SCHULTZ, Justice.

Defendant Milton E. Garr, Jr., a juvenile, appeals his conviction in district court for first-degree theft. He is accused of the theft of a motor vehicle belonging to Karen Kauzlarich of Centerville. The vehicle, a 1986 Buick Park Avenue, was found on June 7, 1988, in a ravine approximately twenty miles south of Centerville in northern Missouri. It had been burned.

On June 2, 1988, Kauzlarich arrived at a business that she owned and managed. She parked her vehicle at the side of the building. About one-half hour later, her son informed Kauzlarich that her vehicle was no longer…