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- Title: State Missouri v. William James Echols
- Author : Court of Appeals of Missouri
- Release Date : January 24, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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GARY M. GAETNER, Presiding Judge Defendant was convicted by a jury in the St. Louis County Circuit Court of attempted burglary first degree, RSMo §§ 564.011, 569.016 (1986). The trial court found defendant to be a prior offender and sentenced him to five years imprisonment. On appeal defendant alleges that the trial court erred in (1) submitting a verdict director that did not require the jury to find that defendant intended to commit a specific crime once in the building or that a person, not a participant in the crime, was in the building; and (2) trying the case on an information that failed to allege two elements of the crime. We affirm. On December 19, 1985, at 4:45 a.m. the victim, Miss Bobbie Carter, was awakened by a noise which she originally thought was caused by a neighbor. The third time she heard the noise she proceeded to the front door of her apartment which she had previously blocked with a dresser since she had been using the front room as her bedroom. The victim then asked who was at the door. Defendant replied, ""let me in, I'm cold."" She told him to leave but he continued to push against the door. The victim testified that it sounded as if defendant was throwing his body against the door. She then telephoned the police.