State v. Hedrick

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted by a jury of burglary in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment for a term of five years. Appellant contends that the evidence was not sufficient to make a jury issue on the offense and, also, that he was deprived of effective assistance of counsel who was ill prepared to defend him.

The evidence of the State was that between the hours of 6:00 p.m. of September 14, 1970 and 9:30 a.m. of September IS, 1970, the door to the Pfaff Oil Company in Chillicothe, Missouri had been broken open, the interior ransacked, and two timepieces, three…