STATE v. MAXWELL

No. 55759.

465 S.W.2d 562 (1971)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Lester MAXWELL, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 2.

April 12, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Charles A. Blackmar, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

James A. Riley, St. Louis, for defendant-appellant.


STOCKARD, Commissioner.

Defendant was charged with first degree burglary and as a second offender. He was found guilty by the jury, and the court determined that he had a prior felony conviction. Punishment was fixed at imprisonment for a term of eight years.

A jury reasonably could find from the evidence that between noon and one o'clock on July 13, 1969, Mrs. Wanda Reese was awakened by a sound, and she saw the head and shoulders of the defendant at the...

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