State v. Gates

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The defendant Gates was convicted by a jury of stealing [§ 570.030, RSMo 1978] and was sentenced to a term of five years. The appeal contends that the information was not a sufficient charge of offense and other points of error.

The victim Abston was an eighty-five-year-old male who was attacked in his home by two females and relieved of $200 in cash. Earlier that day, one of the females, Carol Lloyd, [already known to the victim but not by name] came to the home, told Abston that she was out of work and requested financial help. He offered her the use of one of the…