State v. Blaney

CARL R. GAERTNER, Judge.

Appellant, Jeffrey Blaney, appeals from his conviction of attempted burglary in the second degree and the denial of his Rule 29.15 motion for ineffective assistance of counsel.

About noon on June 1, 1987, Mrs. Gilmore, while working in her backyard, noticed a young man, later identified as appellant, between the outside screen door and inside door of the house of her neighbor, James H. Smith, who was away for the weekend. Shortly thereafter she saw appellant sitting on the Smith’s back stairs and then leave on foot via the driveway and street. Some fifteen minutes…