State v. Schleicher

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal from sentence of four years for second degree burglary and four years for stealing, to run consecutively, upon jury finding of guilty of such offenses.

Joseph R. Stelman and his wife Martha lived at 5750 Rhodes in the City of St. Louis. On the afternoon of November 16, 1966, Mr. Stelman left the house at 2:00 P. M. to go to work. Mrs. Stelman had left at around noon. When Mr. Stelman left, the house was locked and no one was in it.

When Mrs. Stelman returned home at around 8:00 P. M., she found the rear door open. She went to a neighbor’s for assistance. When Mrs.…