State v. Shipman

TITUS, Judge.

Tried as a second offender and found guilty by a jury of attempted burglary (Count I) and possession of burglary tools (Count II), defendant was court-sentenced to concurrent prison terms of five years on Count I and ten years on Count II.

Near 2:30 a.m. on April 16, 1977, a Hor-nersville policeman found and arrested 23-year-old defendant as he was prying on the alley door of a grocery store. Defendant, a self-proclaimed “drug addict,” admitted the crime but testified he thought he was trying to get into the next-door drugstore “to steal drugs.”

Defendant’s mother, a registered…