State v. Jackson

FINCH, Judge.

Both defendants were convicted by a jury of burglary in the second degree. The trial court found that each had three prior felony convictions and sentenced each to a term of ten years’ imprisonment. Both have appealed.

In the early morning hours of January 6, 1965, police officers were dispatched to the Metal Goods Corporation building at 8800 Page Road in Overland, St. Louis County, as a result of the sounding of a burglar alarm. Some of the officers, with the aid of a spotlight, observed two persons emerge from a second-story window of the Metal Goods Corporation building onto…