Case ID: sw2d_554/html/0518-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "BILLINGS, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE of Missouri, Plaintiff-Respondent, v. Gregory Tim WHITES, Defendant-Appellant.
    No. 10602.
    Missouri Court of Appeals, Springfield District.
    June 28, 1977.
    Motion for Rehearing or to Transfer to Supreme Court Denied July 13, 1977.
    Application to Transfer Denied Sept. 12, 1977.
    
      John Ashcroft, Atty. Gen., Paul Robert Otto, Asst. Atty. Gen., Jefferson City, for plaintiff-respondent.
    Timothy H. Battern, Asst. Public Defender, Rolla, for defendant-appellant.
   BILLINGS, Chief Judge.

A Maries County jury found defendant Gregory Tim Whites guilty of second degree burglary [§ 560.070, RSMo 1969] and he was sentenced by the court as a habitual criminal to a six-year prison term.

There was sufficient evidence for the jury to find the defendant broke and entered the Knights of Columbus building in Rolla with intent to steal. State v. Smith, 521 S.W.2d 38 (Mo.App.1975). Defendant’s purported statement “Jesus Christ, can I have a razor to shave myself?”, allegedly made in the presence of a juror during the noon recess, did not call for a mistrial.

No error of law appears.

An opinion would have no precedential value.

Affirmed. Rule 84.16(b).

All concur.