State v. Smith

WEIER, Presiding Judge.

Defendant, Samuel Joseph Smith, was convicted of stealing from a dwelling house. §§ 560.156, 560.161, RSMo 1969. Subsequent to the guilty verdict returned by the jury, and upon determining the defendant had a prior conviction, the trial judge sentenced the defendant to six years imprisonment.

On May 6,1974 Mrs. Gertrude Jones, who resided in a duplex at 1906 North Euclid, St. Louis, Missouri, returned home from work to find the lock on her kitchen-basement door severed and her television set and portable radio missing.

Mr. William Robinson, Jr., who lived next to Mrs.…