State v. Brown

CROW, Chief Judge.

Richard Duane Brown (“defendant”), found guilty by a jury of the class C felonies of burglary in the second degree, § 569.170, RSMo 1978, and stealing property of the value of $150 or more, § 570.030, RSMo 1978, was sentenced as a persistent offender by the trial court, §§ 558.-016-.021, Laws 1981, pp. 636-37, to ten years’ imprisonment for each offense. The sentences were ordered to run consecutively to each other and consecutively to a sentence in another case.

On appeal to this Court, defendant contended that (a) the trial court erred in receiving in evidence certain items…