Legal Opinion
State v. Carson
Missouri Court of Appeals
Decided November 5, 1973No. KCD 26343PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRITCHARD, Judge.
By the verdict of a jury appellant was convicted of the commission of the crime of burglary of the residence of Dorothy Lingo in Platte County, Missouri. His punishment was assessed by the jury at two years imprisonment in accordance with which the court entered judgment of conviction with a sentence of two years imprisonment in the Department of Corrections.
By Points IV and V appellant attacks the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict, in particular that the evidence was purely circumstantial and did not ex- elude every hypothesis of innocence. It is also said…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Stovall v. DennoSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Kirby v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- State v. ReeseSupreme Court of Missouri · 1954
- State v. WhitakerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1955
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3Cited by17 opinions
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