State v. Brunson

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

Defendant Eddie Brunson, who was tried in the Circuit Court of Jackson County, was found guilty by a jury of the crime of burglary, second degree (Section 560.-045, RSMo 1969, V.A.M.S., and, in view of the jury’s inability to agree on his pun ishment, was sentenced by the court to three years confinement in the Department of Corrections. On appeal defendant assails the guilty verdict and imposed sentence on the single ground “that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain a judgment of conviction since there was no evidence that the defendant broke into the dwelling house…