Beets v. State

BUSSEY, Judge.

Billy James Beets, hereinafter referred to as defendant, was charged, tried and convicted in the District Court of Tulsa County for the crime of Second Degree Burglary, After Former Conviction of a Felony; his punishment was fixed at ten years imprisonment in the state penitentiary, and from the judgment and sentence he appeals.

Briefly stated, the facts adduced on the trial reveal that on the early morning of April 16, 1967, Craig Duggan, a newspaper boy, while delivering his route, observed a man in the Go Go Service Station removing cigarettes from the cigarette machine. He…