State v. Miles

DALTON, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged by an information filed in the Circuit Court of Clinton County, Missouri, with the crime of stealing property having a value of more than fifty dollars, to wit: five diamond rings of the value of $700, the personal property of one F. H. Ames. On trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty of felonious stealing, as charged in the information, and assessed defendant’s punishment at one year’s imprisonment in the county jail. A motion for new trial was filed and overruled and, after judgment and sentence, defendant filed notice of appeal.

The…