State v. Williams

STEWART, Judge.

Gary Gene Williams, defendant, was convicted of burglary second degree, sentenced under the Second Offender Act and committed to the Department of Corrections for a period of ten years. Defendant appeals contending that “the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict”.

We will view the facts in evidence and the inferences reasonably to be drawn from them in the light most favorable to the State, to determine whether there was substantial evidence to support the verdict. State v. Cobb, 444 S.W.2d 408 (Mo.1969); State v. Simpson, 502 S.W.2d 451 (Mo.App.1973).

As in many…