State v. Edmonds

BARRETT, Commissioner.

A jury found Alvin Holt Edmonds guilty of “burglary in the second degree and stealing.” He was charged in one count with both offenses, there was an allegation and proof of prior felony convictions, and the court in pronouncing sentence fixed his punishment at five years’ imprisonment for each offense “to run consecutively” — a total of ten years’ imprisonment. Laws Mo.1959, H.B. 260, V.A.M.S. § 560.110.

In three of his assignments in his motion for a new trial the appellant challenges the amendment and sufficiency of the information. At the outset the court is confronted…