Smith v. State

PHIPPS, Presiding Judge.

A jury found Robert Smith guilty of burglary. Smith appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction. We affirm.

When an appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the conviction, “the relevant question is whether, after viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the prosecution, any rational trier of fact could have found the essential elements of the crime beyond a reasonable doubt.”

So viewed, the evidence showed the following. Shortly after midnight on October 5, 2008, sheriffs deputies responded to a…