Lattimore v. State

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

The defendant Lattimore was indicted for burglary and was tried before a jury in the Superior Court of Laurens County. The evidence at trial showed that on March 20, 1983, Emory Hopkins returned home in the afternoon and, before entering, heard someone inside his house. Hopkins observed that the front doorknob was damaged and discovered that the door had been locked from inside. Hopkins then went around to the back of the house and observed the defendant “leaving out [and] going behind the houses.” Hopkins saw that the back door was “wide open” and, upon an…