State v. Harper

Foth, C.J.:

Bobby G. Harper appeals from his jury conviction of burglary. The dispositive issue on appeal is the sufficiency of the State’s evidence, raised by the defendant by motions for acquittal at the end of the State’s case and at the close of all the evidence.

The State’s evidence showed that the Earhart Elementary School in Wichita was broken into at 4:56 a.m. on September 9, 1982. Chris Wimberly, a security dispatcher monitoring an audio security system over telephone lines to the school district’s central service office, heard a loud crash at about that time. He called Wichita police…