State v. Taplin

— Sandy Junior Taplin appeals from a judgment entered upon his conviction by a jury of second-degree burglary. The errors claimed concern two instructions given and the competence of trial counsel. We affirm.

The facts which the jury had a right to find from the evidence are these: On August 20, 1971, the manager of a motel in Seattle left her apartment on an errand which took from 3 to 5 minutes. As she was returning to her apartment, she saw a woman, later identified as Ms. Estill, sitting in the passenger seat of a car parked in the driveway adjacent to the office of the motel. The manager…