Thornton v. State

BOWEN W. SIMMONS, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

Appellant-defendant, pursuant to an indictment for second degree burglary and grand larceny, was convicted by a jury, which returned a general verdict. He was sentenced by the court to three years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The burglarized building was a building material supply house where concrete blocks were manufactured' and sold. According to Albert Green, an employee and foreman at the plant, he visited the premises about 12:20 or 12:25 a. m. on April 12, 1974, at which time he surprised two men in the building who fled the scene. One…