Bankston v. State

Shulman, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted of two counts of burglary and five counts of theft by receiving. On appeal, he raises the general grounds, the joinder of separate offenses, and the consecutive nature of part of his sentence.

1. The evidence supporting one of the burglary counts in this case was that appellant was in possession of property shown to have been stolen in a burglary. Appellant claimed that he bought the property from someone else on a date prior to that alleged to be the date of the burglary. “The state based its case on a rule long established in this state: where a…