State v. Jackson

DIXON, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of stealing property of the value of at least $150. She was sentenced to five years and appeals asserting in three separate points a single issue of warrantless search.

Defendant and an accomplice were arrested for shoplifting in Harzfeld’s in Columbia, Missouri. The defendant and her companion, both black females, appeared in Harzfeld’s and obtained several expensive items of apparel which they took to the dressing rooms. One of the clerks attempted to enter the dressing room and was barred entry to the dressing room. Their suspicions excited, the staff of…