Saine v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

Appellant Sainé was found guilty of burglary and, as a recidivist, was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment. The evidence adduced at trial consisted chiefly of testimony by the director of the youth center located next door to Saine’s house, to the effect that the center had been burglarized on a certain weekend and several items taken; the testimony of a neighbor of Saine’s that, while enjoying a nocturnal rest on his terrace that weekend, he had observed appellant and his co-defendant making several trips between the center and the nearby house of the co-defendant…