Moon v. State

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Appellant Gene Moon was convicted of third degree burglary and second degree theft by a Madison County Circuit Court jury. He was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment under the Alabama Habitual Felony Offenders Act. The relevant facts as they were presented by the State's case in chief revealed the following:

Robert Knight testified that on the evening of April 29, 1983, he returned to his house to find that it had been broken into and several thousand dollars'…