State v. Mendoza

Augustine Mendoza was convicted in a jury-waived trial of the offenses of burglary in the second degree and stealing over $150. The court sentenced Mendoza to two consecutive terms of four years imprisonment. He appeals alleging insufficiency of the evidence and error in the admission of evidence of defendant’s statements. We affirm the judgment.

At about 7:00 o’clock on the evening of December 20,1981, Shirley Steen was in her home preparing for the Christmas holidays when she heard a noise coming from the house of her next-door neighbor, Ms. Donna Burris. Mrs. Steen looked out of her window…