State v. Jones

AHRENS, Judge.

In this jury-tried case, defendant Roy Jones appeals his conviction for receiving stolen property having a value of at least $150.00, a class C felony under § 570.080 RSMo 1986. Defendant was sentenced as a prior and persistent offender to seven years’ imprisonment.

We have consolidated defendant’s direct appeal with his appeal from the denial, following an evidentiary hearing, of his Rule 29.15 motion for post-conviction relief. We reverse defendant’s conviction; his appeal from the motion court’s denial of the Rule 29.15 motion is dismissed as moot.

In the early morning of June…