Luker v. State

This is an appeal from an indictment and conviction of burglary in the second degree wherein sentence was fixed by the trial court at eight years' imprisonment. At trial and on appeal the appellant is represented by court appointed counsel.

Sometime after ten o'clock on the morning of the 13th of January, 1977, the residence of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Taylor, Jr., of Mobile, Alabama, was broken into and ransacked. Mrs. Elaine Berman, a neighbor of the Taylors, testified that after two male strangers came to her door she telephoned the police.

Officer Otis Porter responded to Mrs. Berman's call…