State v. Simpson

BILLINGS, Judge.

Defendant Edgar Elwin Simpson was found guilty by a Greene County jury of second degree burglary [§ 569.170, RSMo 1978] and felonious stealing [§ 570.030, RSMo 1978] and sentenced as a persistent offender [§ 558.016(2), RSMo 1978] to consecutive 10-year prison terms. 1 His appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to support the convictions and alleges instructional error. We affirm.

We recast the evidence in the light most favorable to the state, together with all favorable inferences therefrom, and ignore contrary evidence and inferences. State v. Montgomery, 591…