State v. Patton

GARY W. LYNCH, Judge.

Michael Edward Patton (“Defendant”) was found guilty following a bench trial of committing the class B felony of child molestation in the first degree. Section 566.067. 1 The court sentenced Defendant to a ten-year prison term but suspended execution of the sentence and placed him on supervised probation for five years. Defendant appeals his conviction, contending there was insufficient evidence to find him guilty of first-degree child molestation as it was charged in the felony information, because the evidence was undisputed that he did not touch the child directly with…