Henderson v. State

Sognier, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary and appeals on the general grounds.

On February 1, 1982 Rusty Kelley’s trailer home was burglarized between 9:15 and 9:45 a.m. The same afternoon a guitar and a rifle taken in the burglary were pawned at two different pawnshops in Columbus, Georgia. One of the pawnshops required persons pawning items to leave a fingerprint as identification, and then paid money only to the person who actually pawned the item. The fingerprint taken when the rifle was pawned matched the right index fingerprint of appellant.

Appellant denied committing the…