State v. Luther

WESTHUES, Presiding Judge.

On August 31, 1959, the defendant Everett Lee Luther was convicted in the Circuit Court of Dunklin County, Missouri, of stealing from the person of Eugene Honeycutt the sum of $6. By a jury verdict, his punishment was assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the State Penitentiary. A motion for new trial was overruled and the defendant sentenced in accord-*847anee' with the verdict. An appeal was taken to this court.

Luther was represented by counsel in the trial of the case. No brief was filed in this court for the defendant. In the motion for new trial, it is stated that…