State v. Olinger

STORCKMAN, Judge.

The defendant, Don McDodd Olinger, was charged by information with the offenses of second-degree burglary and stealing. Sections 560.070 and 560.156, RSMo 1959, V.A.M.S. At a hearing out of the presence of a jury, the court found that the defendant had been previously convicted of three felonies as charged in the amended information. Section 556.280. The defendant was found guilty by a jury of the charge of stealing property of the value of more than $50 but was acquitted on the burglary charge. A motion for a new trial was filed, considered by the trial court and overruled.…