Scretchen v. State

Benham, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary. On appeal, he complains of the denial of a motion to suppress, of the trial court’s refusal to give a requested jury charge, and of the insufficiency of the evidence.

1. In support of his enumeration of error concerning the denial of his motion to suppress, appellant argues in essence that his arrest was illegal. We disagree.

The arresting officer testified that, on the day of the arrest, he first saw appellant walking empty-handed in a residential area in which there had been a number of daytime burglaries, then saw appellant again 35 minutes…