State v. Aziz

DIXON, Judge.

Defendant appeals his conviction by a jury of second degree burglary and sentence of one year. The determinative issue, properly preserved, is the sufficiency of the evidence to support his conviction upon the state’s submission and theory of circumstantial evidence.

In the early morning hours of April 9, 1981, several police officers were dispatched to the Ben Casey Sundry store in Kansas City. The officers observed that the store’s front door was ajar and the padlock was missing. Suspecting that the burglar or burglars might still be inside the store, one of the policemen…