Newman v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant was indicted for burglary, theft by receiving stolen property, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The evidence adduced at a jury trial showed the following: Near midnight on December 22, 1992, uniformed officers of the City of Morrow Police Department responded to a burglar alarm at a Midas Muffler shop on Jonesboro Road. A panel of the garage door had been kicked in and a muddy footprint of wet red clay was found inside. Tire marks of wet clay led off the premises and headed north. Some 300 feet from the Midas shop, police observed a 1979…