State v. Jones

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Judge.

The State charged Appellant, William Jones Jr. (“Jones”), with the Class D felony of abandoning a corpse, section 194.425.1.1 A Boone County jury found him guilty as charged, and the circuit court sentenced him to a four-year term of imprisonment in the custody of the Missouri Department of Corrections. Jones appeals the circuit court’s judgment of conviction, advancing two points relied on.

In his first point, which resolves his appeal, Jones asserts that, because he could not be found to have committed the charged offense beyond a reasonable doubt on the evidence…