State v. Hancock

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

The dispositive issue is whether the trial court erred in receiving evidence of other thefts in this case in which appellant was charged for the crime of burglary of a building on August 1, 1967. A prior felony offense was alleged, and found by the court, the jury found appellant guilty, and the court sentenced him to five years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections.

On August 2, 1967, State Patrolman Richard Liedorff saw a 1965 or 1966 Oldsmobile traveling west on U. S. Highway 36 about thirteen miles west of Brookfield, Missouri. The car had extensive damage…