State v. Harvell

SIMEONE, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction entered by the circuit court of the City of St. Louis whereby the defendant-appellant, Melvin Harvell, was sentenced to the department of corrections for five years for the offense of burglary in the second degree. § 560.045, RSMo 1968. For reasons hereinafter stated, we affirm.

On the evening of January 3, 1974, between 7:15 and 7:30 p. m., Mr. George Johnson, the night manager of rental property located at 4118 McPherson Avenue in the City of St. Louis, observed appellant and another man carrying a refrigerator across…