State v. Hawkins

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal, filed prior to January 1, 1972, from judgment of conviction and five-year sentence, imposed under the Second Offender Act, after jury found Lawrence Durward Hawkins guilty of burglary in the second degree.

The only evidence at the trial was pro- • duced by the state. It showed the following:

At around 7:00 A.M. on Sunday, September IS, 1968, three residents of Nevada, Missouri, were driving north on Highway 71 in that city, en route dove hunting. As they drove past the warehouse and office of Yeager Wholesale Inc., the occupants of the auto noticed an automobile…