State v. Van

JAMES R. DOWD, Presiding Judge.

Robert Van (Defendant) appeals from the judgment and sentence entered following his jury conviction for stealing $150 or more in violation of section 570.030, RSMo 1994. We affirm.

On January 15, 1996, Defendant entered the Lord & Taylor store in the Galleria shopping mall in St. Louis County. He immediately walked over to a vacant cash register and took a shopping bag. He went to a table with Nautica sweatshirts on it. He put a stack of four sweatshirts into the shopping bag and exited from the store into the mall. Mary Ellen Anastas, the store’s loss prevention…