Sullivan v. Commonwealth

The indictment in this case charged James Junior Sullivan with burglary of the Alexandria Housing Authority office on March 26, 1966. The trial court, sitting without a jury, convicted Sullivan of burglary and imposed a ten-year sentence. On this appeal Sullivan con*202tends that (1) a stolen credit card was improperly admitted in evidence because it was seized during an illegal search of his person, and (2) the evidence was insufficient to sustain a conviction of burglary.

During the night of March 25-26, 1966, someone forcibly entered the Alexandria Housing Authority office, ransacked the office…