State v. Harrell

DON E. BURRELL, Judge.

A jury found Lee Harrell (“Defendant”) guilty of committing the class B felony of first-degree burglary and the unclassified felony of armed criminal action (“ACA”) by unlawfully entering a church (with the purpose to commit stealing) while armed with a deadly weapon. See sections 569.160 and 571.015.1 The alleged deadly weapon was a metal replica of the “Sword of Narnia” (the “replica sword”) that had been won by children as a carnival prize.2 The trial court sentenced Defendant to serve twenty-five years in the Department of Corrections: ten years for burglary running…