State v. McGonigle

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

A jury found Dannie Ray McGonigle guilty of second-degree burglary in violation of Iowa Code section 713.5 (1985). Trial court entered judgment sentencing him to a prison term of not more than ten years. Finding no merit in the grounds he relies on for reversal, we affirm.

There is substantial evidence in the record from which the jury could have found the following facts. March 20, 1985, McGonigle, without permission, entered the rural Jackson County home of Brian Roe. He stole a portable television set and a bowl containing approximately twenty dollars in change.…