Hibbert v. State

Bell, Chief Judge.

Defendant was convicted of burglary. The indictment charged that defendant without authority and with intent to commit theft entered a certain drugstore.

The state’s witnesses established that defendant was observed during the evening hours inside a drugstore that was closed; that he exited the building by crashing through a front plate glass window; and that he had no authority to enter the building. Defendant testified that after becoming intoxicated he entered the pharmacy through an opening in a window; that after realizing he had no right to be in the building he…