State v. Shipman

PREWITT, Presiding Judge.

Following jury trial defendant was convicted of burglary in the first degree and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment. He appeals, presenting two points relied on.

Defendant was charged with entering a house occupied by a woman and two children “for the purpose of committing sexual abuse in the third degree therein”. In his first point defendant asserts that the trial court erred in failing to grant his motion for a judgment of acquittal because there was insufficient evidence to find that he entered the premises with the purpose of committing sexual abuse in the…