James v. State

The indictment charged Leslie James, alias, with the first degree burglary of the dwelling house of Melody Putman, who was lodged therein on the night of June 12-13, 1979. The jury found the appellant "guilty as charged" in the indictment, and the trial court set sentence at twenty years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

Leonard M. Robbins, a Birmingham evidence technician officer, stated that he went to Apartment B-2 at 2310 Highland Avenue in Birmingham, Alabama, on the early morning of June 13, 1979. He made four fingerprint lifts from an aluminum screen on a bedroom window, two from the…