State v. Olten

MARK D. PFEIFFER, Judge.

Following a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Cole County (“trial court”), Dale Olten, Jr. (“Olten”), was convicted on one count of burglary in the first degree, § 569.160, 1 and one count of burglary in the second degree, § 569.170, and was sentenced to two concurrent seven-year prison sentences. Olten appeals his conviction of burglary in the first degree, contending that the trial court erred in overruling his motion for judgment of acquittal, as he claims the State failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Olten or Jesse Patterson (“Patterson”) were “armed”…