State v. John Benoit

OPINION

Justice FLAHERTY, for the Court.

This case is before the Court on appeal by the defendant, John Benoit, from judgment-after a jury convicted him on one count of entering an apartment with the intent to commit larceny. The defendant received a four-year sentence, with eighteen months to serve and thirty months suspended, with thirty months of probation. On appeal, the, defendant argues that the trial justice erred by: (1), denying his' motion for judgment of acquittal, based on his assertion that the state failed to produce sufficient evidence of his intent to commit larceny at the time…