Burrell v. State

The appellant was convicted by a Mobile Circuit Court jury for possessing burglar's tools in violation of § 13A-7-8, Code of Alabama 1975. After the jury verdict, the appellant was adjudged a habitual felony offender and sentenced to twenty years.

On January 22, 1982, Mobile Police Officer Gary Smith responded to a radio dispatch concerning a suspicious vehicle at 3050 Old Shell Road in Mobile County, Alabama. Smith arrived about 12:45 a.m. and saw an unoccupied "69 Pontiac LeMans, two door" in a gravel parking lot owned by the complainant, Norman Lowell. According to Smith, "we ran a tag…