Missouri Court of Appeals May 17, 1979, No. 11041 (State v. Childers)

BILLINGS, Judge.

Defendant James Dwight Childers was convicted by a Maries County jury of stealing property of a value of at least $50 [§§ 560.156, 560.161, RSMo 1969] and sentenced as a habitual criminal to a three-year prison term. Claiming he was entitled to an instruction submitting the offense of stealing property of a value less than $501 defendant has appealed. We affirm.