State v. Boothe

STOCKARD, Commissioner

Defendant has appealed from a judgment whereby he was sentenced to imprisonment for four years for burglary in the second degree. The case was tried before the court without a jury by express agreement of defendant. The “one complaint” of defendant on this appeal is that “there is no evidence that connects him with this burglary.” Defendant did not offer any evidence. We shall set forth the evidence of the State in considerable detail.

At 6:05 o’clock of the evening of January 31, 1961, Earl Barnhart, the general manager of the Clark Retread Service at Warrensburg,…