State v. Price

McMILLIAN, Judge.

Defendant-appellant Helen Patricia Price appeals from a conviction in the circuit court of the City of St. Louis for stealing over $50 and a sentence imposed by the court, pursuant to the Second Offender Act, to a term of five (5) years imprisonment. We reverse the conviction and remand for a new trial.

*778At trial the state’s evidence was that on December 4, 1974, Ms. Joyce Jobe and Ms. Sally Parker, security officers in the downtown Famous-Barr Department Store, saw appellant take a red plastic shopping bag from her purse, place four handbags from a sales rack into the bag, and…