[DOWNLOAD] "State Missouri v. Charles Larry Allen" by Supreme Court of Missouri * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: State Missouri v. Charles Larry Allen
- Author : Supreme Court of Missouri
- Release Date : January 09, 1967
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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Eighteen-year-old Charles Larry Allen, convicted by a jury of second degree burglary and stealing and sentenced to consecutive
3 and 2-year terms in the custody of the department of corrections, has appealed. Represented at the trial and on this appeal
by counsel of his own choosing, appellant makes two points: First, that the evidence is not sufficient to sustain a verdict
of second degree burglary and stealing; second, that the prosecuting attorney made an inflammatory and prejudicial argument
to the jury. On the night of August 2-3, 1965 a sporting goods store located on Manchester Road in the City of Rockhill was broken into.
Guns, rifles and knives valued at $700 were removed therefrom. There are front and rear entrances. The rear entrance consists
of combination wood and glass twin or double doors, covered on the outside by screen doors. The screen doors were secured
by hooks. The twin doors were secured by two inside bolts, one belt high, the other about six feet up. There was a crack in
the glass in the left-hand door (as you face the doors from the outside) caused by the wind slamming the door shut. It had
been taped over with Scotch tape. The crack was 18 inches long. Semicircular in shape, it ranged up from the base of the glass
pane in a curving line to a point on the side of the door frame where the pane was set in the molding. The section of glass
outlined by the crack constituted the right-hand area of the glass pane of the left door. The glass panes were held in place
in the doors by a half-inch wooden molding. There was a "molding line" on the long perpendicular side of the somewhat triangular
section of the pane of glass.