Burks v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The defendant was convicted of burglary and appeals on the general grounds only. Officers responding to an alarm around midnight from within a pawn shop found the defendant attempting to hide in crawl space at the top of the building. The only entry to this space had to have been through a hole in the roof above an attic fan, the control louvers of which had been pulled or knocked out. There was testimony that money was missing from the till, and testimony by one of the police officers that the defendant gave a statement admitting he entered the building and took some…