State v. Williams

CRANDALL, Judge.

Defendant appeals from his conviction in a jury trial of burglary in the second degree. § 569.170, RSMo (1978). He was found to be a persistent offender, § 558.-016, RSMo (1978), and sentenced by the court to a term of ten years’ imprisonment. We affirm.

The burglary occurred on November 12, 1981, in the City of Ladue, Missouri. The address where it occurred contains at least two houses situated on twenty-eight acres of land. There is a large main house and a smaller carriage or gatehouse, which is the house that was burglarized. At 10:50 a.m. that day a gardener, who was…