State v. Hunt

HYDE, Judge.

Defendant was convicted of buying and receiving stolen goods of a value of over $30.00, knowing the goods to have been stolen, in violation of Sec. 560.270 RSMo and V.A.M.S. Defendant was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary and has appealed.

There is no question as to the sufficiency of the evidence to make a jury case. One Sam Massa testified that he and two other men broke into a hardware store in Farmersville, Illinois, took some shotguns, electric fans and fishing rods and put them in his car. Later that night he was arrested while breaking into another store in…