State v. Dorsey

KAROHL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged with second degree burglary in violation of § 569.170 RSMo 1978 and stealing over $150 in violation of § 570.030 RSMo Cum.Supp.1984. The jury found the defendant not guilty of burglary, and returned verdicts of guilty and not guilty on the same charge of stealing. Defendant was sentenced as a prior offender on the stealing charge to three years imprisonment.

There was both direct and circumstantial evidence from which a jury could reasonably find that defendant appropriated personal property with a value of at least $150 from the owner without his…