State v. Williams

TITUS, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was jury-convicted of the class C felony of failing to return rented personal property with a value of one hundred fifty dollars or more. § 578.150.1 The court found defendant to be a prior offender and sentenced him to imprisonment for a term of five years. § 558.016. The sufficiency of the evidence is not here questioned. Therefore we recast only those facts necessary to determine the three points relied on.

I

In his first point, defendant contends the trial court erred in overruling his motion for a mistrial after state witness Don Lester referred to filing…