Porter v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was charged in an indictment in Count 1 with “CRIMINAL ATTEMPT — THEFT BY TAKING MOTOR VEHICLE,” in that he “enter[ed] a 1987 Cadillac, a motor vehicle, property of Shervan Lee Wilson, and [broke] the steering column of said vehicle!.]” Defendant was further charged in Count 2 with “OBSTRUCTION OF AN OFFICER,” in that he fled from arrest. At defendant’s jury trial, Ray Earl Carter .testified that about 1:00 a.m. on September 20, 1995, as he was watching the news on television, he observed a brown Cadillac automobile slowly cruise up and down the street in…