STATE v. HALE

No. 37168.

540 S.W.2d 618 (1976)

STATE of Missouri, Respondent, v. Leonard HALE, Appellant.

Missouri Court of Appeals, St. Louis District, Division Two.

August 17, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Prebil, Mary Louise Moran, Asst. Public Defenders, St. Louis, for appellant.

John C. Danforth, Atty. Gen., Preston Dean, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, Brendan Ryan, Circuit Atty., St. Louis, for respondent.


CLEMENS, Presiding Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of second degree burglary and the court sentenced him to five years' imprisonment. On appeal defendant challenges the sufficiency of the state's evidence.

Christmas day, 1974, while waiting for a bus near the downtown St. Louis Woolworth store, John Patton noticed its front door had been broken in. He saw a man, distinctively dressed and carrying a brown paper...

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