State v. Woolsey

HYDE, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was found guilty of stealing property of the value of at least $50, and was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. See Secs. 560.156, 560.161, RSMo and V.A.M.S. Defendant has appealed but filed no brief so we consider the assignments properly made in his motion for new trial. State v. Stehlin, Mo.Sup., 312 S.W.2d 838.

Defendant’s motion for new trial raises only two points, namely, the sufficiency of the evidence to make a case for the jury; and error in summoning, as a juror, a woman whose husband was alleged to have been a deputy sheriff of…