State v. Fryer

Defendant, Lonnie Douglas Fryer, appeals his judgment and sentence for first degree burglary and two counts of second degree assault, entered after a bench trial.

At about 2 o'clock in the morning, the defendant entered the apartment of his estranged wife through an unlocked window. He proceeded to her bedroom, where he confronted her and the man with whom she was sleeping. In the altercation that followed, he seriously injured the man and cut his wife with a knife. Defendant testified that he had come by the apartment merely to look at his young children through the window, and that he…