State v. Peterson

BARRETT, Commissioner.

A jury has found the appellant, Gerald Peterson, guilty of second degree burglary. The jury also found that he had been previously convicted, sentenced and discharged of an offense punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary and, therefore, fixed his punishment at ten years’ imprisonment.

The information charged that in 1954 he was “duly convicted of Larceny of an Automobile and in accordance with said conviction, was sentenced to three (3) years in the Missouri State Penitentiary and on the 23rd day of January, 1954, was duly imprisoned therein in accordance with the…