State v. Cline

Respondent was tried and found guilty of breaking and entering in the nighttime in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 1201. As ground for error, he claims the State failed to prove the breaking element of the crime charged and that the judge should have granted his motion for a judgment of acquittal.

A male figure was spotted in the Burlington Planned Parenthood office around midnight on July 26-27, by a private security guard. The guard summoned police, who saw a man on the office building’s roof. The man was ordered off the roof, and he complied. The security guard identified him as the person he saw…