Donald Gene Durham v. Edward E. Haynes, Superintendent

Donald Gene Durham, hereafter referred to as appellant, is a Missouri State prisoner in the custody of Edward E. Haynes, Superintendent of the Missouri Training Center for Men, Moberly, Missouri. He was found guilty of burglary and stealing by a jury in the Circuit Court of Phelps County, Missouri. Finding that appellant had been convicted of prior felonies, the court sentenced him, under the state habitual criminal act, to a term of eight years for the burglary and four years for the stealing, the terms to run consecutively. This conviction was affirmed, State v. Durham, 367 S.W.2d 619…