Jones v. State

This is an appeal from a burglary conviction. The Defendant was accused of walking into a dormitory room on a college campus and forming the intent to steal items inside the room. Jacky Atiene, the occupant of the dormitory room, testified that he was lying on the top bunk watching television in the darkened room. He left his door cracked open approximately two inches, as was his practice. He watched the Defendant, whom he did not know at the time, walk into the room and close the door behind him. The defendant “licked his lips” and walked toward the crates beneath Atiene’s bunk, where Atiene…