State v. Bodfield

Defendant, Michael Allen Bodfield, was convicted of burglary by a jury in the district court for Dawson County. After a later hearing, the trial court found defendant to be á habitual criminal, as defined in Neb. Rev. Stat. § 29-2221 (Reissue 1985), and sentenced him to 11 to 20 years in the penal complex. On appeal to this court, defendant assigns three errors: (1) that the court erred in failing to find that the evidence was insufficient to support a conviction of burglary; (2) that the trial court erred by communicating with the jury, through the clerk of the court, in the absence of…