State v. McGee

PREWITT, Judge.

Defendant appeals from convictions of burglary and stealing. He was sentenced to consecutive terms of two years on both charges.

Defendant presents two points for our review: 1. that there was insufficient evidence to show that defendant broke into the house from which the goods were taken, and 2. that an instruction was erroneous as the evidence did not show that the items listed in the instruction were the same items that were taken from the house.

On the morning of October 6, 1977, Earl and Fannie Potts left their residence near Cabool in Texas County, Missouri, to go to…