State v. Knabe

SWOFFORD, Judge.

The appellant (hereafter defendant) was charged with the felony of stealing property over the value of Fifty Dollars, Section 560.156 RSMo 1969. After a jury trial, he was found guilty, and in accordance with such verdict, was thereafter sentenced to six (6) months in the Jackson County Jail and a fine of Five Hundred ($500.00) Dollars. After an unavailing motion for a new trial, this appeal followed in due course.

The defendant attempts to raise two points on this appeal. He states, first, that the court erred

“in overruling defendant’s motion for directed verdict of acquittal…