State v. Quinn

Appellant, Quinn, was tried in the Circuit Court of Butler County, Missouri, on a charge of burglary and larceny. He was convicted of burglary in the second degree and sentenced to imprisonment in the State penitentiary for a term of nine years. An appeal was taken to this court.

[1] Appellant did not contend that the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction, except in one particular which will be noted later in the opinion. A brief statement of the facts will therefore suffice. Two witnesses, named Green and Patterson, testified that appellant informed them that he needed some tires;…