Green v. State

LEIGH M. CLARK, Retired Circuit Judge.

A jury found defendant guilty of burglary in the first degree. The court fixed his punishment at imprisonment for twenty years and sentenced him accordingly.

The indictment alleged that the inhabited dwelling house involved was “owned by or in possession of,” and was “occupied by Lucile Rogers Palmer.”

According to the testimony of Mrs. Palmer, about eighty years of age, she owned the house and was living in it when it was burglarized on a night in April 1979. Also living in the house was a man by the name of Johnny Rodgers, who was sleeping in the front…