State v. Haynes

RENDLEN, Judge.

Defendant was charged by amended information with Burglary Second Degree, § 560.070 RSMo 1969, Y.A.M.S., and one prior felony conviction. Following the jury’s guilty verdict, he was sentenced by the court to six years imprisonment, § 556.-280 RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S., and now appeals. We affirm.

As sufficiency of the evidence is not challenged, our statement of facts will be brief. In the early morning of October 22, 1973, Joseph Ellington, a taxi driver with the Laclede Cab Company, driving east on Maryland Avenue, noticed broken glass on the sidewalk by “Saks Fifth Avenue.” As he…