State v. Bell

WELBORN, Commissioner.

Appeal from 10-year sentence under Second Offender Act, upon jury verdict of guilty of burglary in the first degree.

At around 2:00 A.M., July 18, 1967, Ronald Sprengnether, the next door neighbor of Mr. Walter Dammer who lived at 3127 Longfellow Boulevard in the City of St. Louis, heard noises in Mr. Dammer’s driveway. He decided that there were persons in the Dammer driveway and suggested that his mother call the police. She did so and when Sprengnether returned and looked out the window he saw three persons. He heard the sound of breaking glass and then saw a side door…