State v. Summers

PREWITT, Judge.

Following jury trial defendant was convicted of burglary and stealing, and sentenced as a persistent offender to nine years and four years respectively, with the sentences to run consecutively.

Defendant contends that the trial court erred in admitting his tennis shoes into evidence because the shoes were seized as a direct result of an unlawful arrest. He also contends that the evidence was insufficient to sustain the convictions “in that the only evidence offered by the state to connect defendant with the crime charged was his presence at and flight from the scene of the…