State v. Savu

WEIER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Matt Savu was found guilty of the offense of stealing property of a value of at least $50.00, and was sentenced to five years imprisonment by the jury. §§ 560.156, 560.161, RSMo.1969. From this conviction, defendant appeals.

On December 16, 1974, one woman and two men were observed leaving the P. N. Hirsch store in Jackson, Missouri, wearing long, dark topcoats that bulged in the back. They entered a dark brown Oldsmobile whose license number was noted by an employee of the store. A check of the department from which direction the trio had come revealed nine…