State v. Linders

Defendant was convicted of the crime of burglary in the second degree in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. The jury fixed his punishment at two years in the State Penitentiary. After unavailing motions for new trial and in arrest of judgment, sentence was pronounced on the verdict and defendant has appealed.

The State’s evidence tended to prove that at about seven o’clock p. m., April 25,1919, a Ford automobile belonging to one James Barry, or in his possession, was put in the garage at the home of said Barry in the city of St. Louis. The doors of the garage were closed. The…