WELLBORN, Commissioner.
Carl Overby appeals from an eight-year sentence, imposed under the Second Offender Act (§ 556.280, RSMo 1959, V.A. M.S.) upon a jury verdict finding him guilty on a charge of stealing steel fence posts of a value of $91.35.
At the close of business on January 20, 1967, the Calhoon Lumber Company at Neck City, Missouri, had on hand 382 steel fence posts, standing outside a building in the enclosed lumber yard premises.
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