Stockwell v. State

Two issues are presented on this appeal:

1. Is there sufficient credible evidence in the record to sustain a conviction for being a party to a masked armed robbery; and

2. Was the seventeen-year sentence imposed by the trial court an abuse of its discretion?

Sufficiency of evidence.

Defendant’s first contention is that there was insufficient evidence presented at his trial for a jury to find him guilty of aiding and abetting in the commission of the armed robbery. On appeal, the test for determining the sufficiency of the evidence which was set forth in Bautista v. State (1971), 53 Wis. 2d 218,…