State v. Cheeks

CRIST, Judge.

Defendant appeals his jury conviction for stealing property of a value of at least $50.00. Pursuant to the Second Offender Act, the trial court assessed defendant’s punishment at four years imprisonment. We affirm.

Defendant and two female accomplices took three coats from the Famous-Barr store in Clayton, Missouri. Defendant was stopped by a security guard as he left the store and the police were summoned. Defendant, in a statement made to police, noted that he, his brother and the two girls, “had been to the downtown Famous earlier in the evening, did not get anything, and…