Legal Opinion

State v. Light

Missouri Court of Appeals

Decided March 14, 1978No. 10695PublishedCited by 4 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

TITUS, Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of second degree burglary and stealing. In accordance with the verdict defendant was sentenced to consecutive two-year prison terms for each crime.

On appeal, defendant’s lone point relied on asserts that the conviction cannot stand because he “was convicted on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice . *783Richard Sederburg [whose] testimony was so lacking of probative force as not to amount to substantial or credible evidence . . ."

Aside from the testimony of Sederburg, the accomplice, the state’s evidence showed the following. On October 1, 1975,…

2Cases cited14 opinions

  1. State v. LangSupreme Court of Missouri · 1974
  2. State v. StrongSupreme Court of Missouri · 1972
  3. State v. SummersMissouri Court of Appeals · 1974
  4. State v. MartinMissouri Court of Appeals · 1975
  5. State v. HarrisSupreme Court of Missouri · 1956

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. State v. DickMissouri Court of Appeals · 1982
  2. State v. SmithMissouri Court of Appeals · 1983
  3. State v. ClarkMissouri Court of Appeals · 1985
  4. State v. StringerMissouri Court of Appeals · 1987

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