Missouri v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense burglary, penalty two years in the penitentiary.

Prosecuting witness was awakened on the night the crime was committed and as he approached his corn crib, someone fled therefrom, whom he was not able to identify.

Prosecuting witness, over objection, was permitted to testify that his corn crib had been burglarized three times in the preceding months and that the morning after the last mentioned burglary he found a great quantity of corn cobs on the premises of appellant of the same peculiar size of those owned by him. No corn was taken the night of the last burglary. The…