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STATE v. HUGHES

No. 55188.

461 S.W.2d 858 (1971)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. William C. HUGHES, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Missouri, Division No. 1.

January 11, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., John W. Cowden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for respondent.

Kent D. Kehr, St. Louis, for appellant.

WELBORN, Commissioner.

William Cosby Hughes was found guilty by a jury in the St. Louis Circuit Court of burglary in the second degree and stealing. The trial court, acting under the Second Offender Act, set the punishment at nine years' imprisonment for burglary and four years' imprisonment for stealing, the sentences to run consecutively. This appeal followed.

According to the state's evidence, at about 1:00 P.M., December 5, 1968, a neighbor of Mr. and...

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