State v. Huff

HIGGINS, Commissioner.

Charles Glenn Huff, with two prior convictions of burglary, second degree, and stealing, was further charged with burglary, second degree. A jury convicted him and the court assessed his punishment at seven years’ imprisonment. §§ 556.280, 560.070, 560.095, V.A.M.S.

Appellant contends that the state’s evidence was entirely circumstantial and was “not inconsistent and irreconcilable with defendant’s innocence * * * as to exclude every reasonable hypothesis of his innocence,” in that the evidence showed only his presence at the scene of a burglary.

The evidence, so…