State v. Juralos

REINHARD, Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of the offense of burglary in the first degree, § 569.160, RSMo 1978, and the jury assessed his punishment at five years in the Department of Corrections. Defendant had been charged as a persistent offender and after a finding by the court that he was a persistent offender, the court enhanced the punishment by an additional fifteen years. Defendant appeals. We affirm.

As his first point, defendant contends the court erred in failing to sustain his motion for a directed verdict at the close of all the evidence, because the only evidence of his…