Washington v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, five years.

The State’s version of the events on the night in question was as follows: an observant citizen saw an unknown man, standing in front of an open garage door at 1:00 A.M. His suspicion aroused, he called the police to investigate. Some five minutes prior to the arrival of the police, the man, together with other persons, departed in a pick-up truck, easily identifiable because of its black color with a white stripe, its loud mufflers, and its Georgia license plates. After describing the events and the pickup to the…