State v. Williams

BARRY, Judge.

Wilbert Williams was convicted of simple burglary, La.R.S. 14:62, and sentenced as a second offender to nine years at hard labor. He assigns as error the insufficiency of evidence to convict and the trial court’s lack of jurisdiction to adjudicate him a multiple offender.

At about 4:00 a.m. on December 9, 1984 a college student/cab driver, Chukuuma Ode-lugo was parked with his headlights facing the windows of the office of Dr. Irvin Sheen, his dentist. He saw an albino black man climb out of a window of the office and followed the man. Odelugo flagged down a police car and…