State v. Shipman

BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

Defendant Donald Patrick Shipman was convicted of an attempt to commit burglary and possession of burglar’s tools by a Dunk-lin County jury. The jury’s verdicts were returned August 23, 1977, and on September 8,1977, the defendant filed a motion for new trial.1

The transcript filed herein, approved by the parties, recites that following the court’s overruling of the motion for new trial “allocution was accorded defendant and he was thereafter sentenced by the Court.” This is followed by what is designated as an entry in the office of the clerk which reads:

*604“Allocution…