State v. Cooper

TIMMONS-GOODSON, Judge.

Alfred Lee Cooper (“defendant”) appeals from the judgment entered upon his conviction by a jury of first-degree burglary. For the reasons discussed below, we vacate his conviction and remand this matter to the superior court.

The State’s case was built primarily on the testimony of the complaining witness. The complainant testified that she was at home alone on the night of 13 September 1997, when she heard a noise coming from her son’s bedroom. She went into the bedroom and discovered that the screen was out of the window and objects displayed on the window sill had…