State v. Mott

NUGENT, Judge.

Defendant Robert Mott appeals his conviction of the offense of burglary in the second degree, § 560.045-§ 560.095, R.S. Mo.1969, and stealing property over fifty dollars, § 560.156, R.S.Mo.1969. He was sentenced to a term of seven years for each offense. We reverse defendant’s conviction.

In the early morning hours of an October day in 1977, thirty men’s suits of a wholesale value of $2,198.50 were stolen in a burglary of a Jefferson City department store. In the afternoon of that same day defendant Mott, Sandy White and George Webber appeared with the suits at 2717 Truman Road…