State v. Crow

PRITCHARD, Commissioner.

A jury found appellant “guilty of burglary in the second degree and of bur-glarious stealing as charged in the information.” Upon a finding of a prior conviction, as alleged, appellant was sentenced by the court to ten years imprisonment on the burglary charge and five years imprisonment on the burglarious stealing charge, the sentences to run consecutively.

The sufficiency of the evidence is first challenged. On the morning of September 9, 1969, Robert Short, an employee of Fleming Cash and Carry, a grocery store in Joplin, Missouri, came to work about 7:00 o’clock. He…