One of the two men who broke into a Casper home two years ago — not expecting to encounter a scrappy sheriff’s deputy the deputy’s pregnant, pistol-packing wife — has to keep serving his 22-to- 25-year prison term, the Wyoming Supreme Court ruled Tuesday.

Joel Lee Wilson, 42, appealed to the Wyoming Supreme Court after his Feb. 28 sentencing, arguing that his trial jury didn’t have enough evidence to convict him of aggravated burglary and robbery.

The former is punishable by between five and 25 years in prison. The latter by up to 10 years in prison.

Wilson’s argument was that prosecutors wrongly relied on text messages between Wilson and his co-defendant, Daniel Hemmer, to show that the pair intended to steal anything from the home, and that the jury didn't have enough evidence

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