State v. Beckmeyer

CLEMENS, Senior Judge.

A jury found defendant John Beckmeyer guilty of second degree burglary; the court found he was a prior felon and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.

Here defendant first claims error in failure to instruct on the lesser offense of trespass, and second in failure to direct an acquittal. These in inverse order.

The state’s evidence: Victim Pamela Meyer was away from home but had authorized next-door neighbor, veteran police officer John Brasser, to regularly inspect her next-door apartment. When he came home early in the morning he saw the Meyer apartment front window had…