State v. Jelks

KAROHL, Presiding Judge.

Defendant-appellant Charles Jelks was convicted and sentenced as a persistent offender by the court to serve six years imprisonment after a guilty verdict on the charge of burglary in the second degree. § 569.170, RSMo 1978. We affirm.

Defendant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. He offered no evidence at trial. Essential elements of the state’s case were circumstantial. In such a case the facts and circumstances relied upon by the state to establish guilt must be consistent with each other and with the hypothesis of guilt. State v. Porter, 640 S.W.2d 125, 127…