State v. Barker

TITUS, Presiding Judge.

A jury found defendant Ronald Lee Barker guilty of stealing an automobile, a *129class C felony, § 570.030.1 The court sentenced him to a term of four years in the Department of Corrections in accordance with the jury assessment.

On appeal, defendant contends the court erred in overruling his motion for judgment of acquittal at the close of all the evidence because the state did not present sufficient evidence from which the jury could find or infer that “appellant intended to permanently deprive William Steven [sic] Baker of his automobile because appellant was arrested…