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Criminal Law: First-Degree Assault-Sufficiency of Evidence-Identification
Staff Report//June 17, 2019
Criminal Law: First-Degree Assault-Sufficiency of Evidence-Identification
Staff Report//June 17, 2019
Where a defendant challenged her conviction in a first-degree assault case, arguing that the state did not identify her as the shooter, the victim’s testimony, ample circumstantial evidence and reasonable inferences were available from which a jury could conclude that the defendant shot the victim, so the evidence was sufficient to connect the defendant to the crime, and the judgment is affirmed because the trial court did not err in admitting evidence of shell casings found at the scene.
Judgment is affirmed.
State v. Ryan (MLW No. 73357/Case No. SD35618 – 16 pages) (Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Sheffield, J.) Appealed from circuit court, Texas County, Beger, J. (Garrick Aplin, Jefferson City, for respondent) (Dee Wampler and Erica Lynn Mynarich, Springfield, for appellant).
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