Stewart v. State

The sole issue presented for review is whether there was sufficient evidence to support the jury’s verdict of guilty.

There is no serious dispute that the evidence adduced at this trial, circumstantial or otherwise, demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that a burglary and attempted theft had taken place at the Liberty Pharmacy in the early hours of January 2, 1975. What the defendant does dispute in this appeal is the sufficiency of the evidence to permit the jury to conclude that he perpetrated these crimes.

The evidence upon which the jury made this determination was for the most part…