Rivers v. State

BOWEN, Presiding Judge.

Jerome Rivers was convicted of second degree burglary and was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment as a habitual offender. On this appeal from that conviction, the appellant argues that the indictment is void and that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict of the jury.

In this particular case, both of these issues are interconnected and must be viewed in the context in which they were presented at trial.

The indictment charged, in pertinent part, that the appellant “did knowingly enter or remain unlawfully in a lawfully occupied dwelling house of Otis Welch…