State v. Ross

TURNAGE, Presiding Judge.

Earl Ross was convicted of burglary and stealing, §§ 560.070, 560.110 and 560.095, RSMo 1969, by a jury which assessed his punishment at eight years for burglary and four years for stealing. The court ordered such sentences to run consecutively.

On this appeal Ross contends the State failed to make a submissible case and his judgment of acquittal should have been sustained because the only evidence against him resulted from the piling of inferences and the court erred in giving two instructions because the name of the owner of the property varied from the name in the…