State v. Van Black

MAUS, Judge.

The defendant was charged with having committed arson in the second degree by burning his own house. § 569.050. The principal evidence presented by the state was the testimony of the defendant’s accomplices, Danny Warden and Arthur Clu-bine. A jury accepted their testimony and found the defendant guilty. In view of that verdict, “[i]n reviewing a contention that the evidence was insufficient to establish the crime charged, we accept as true all of the evidence favorable to the state, including all favorable inferences drawn from the evidence, and disregard all evidence and…