Prantl v. State

Charles Prantl was indicted on a charge of burglary in the third degree. At the trial, the jury returned a verdict of guilty of burglary in the third degree, and appellant was sentenced under the Habitual Felony Offenders Act to thirty (30) years' imprisonment in the penitentiary.

On Saturday afternoon, November 28, 1981, Shelby County Deputy Sheriff Lloyd Anderson received a call to investigate a burglar alarm. He proceeded to Robert Robinson's cabin on Lay Lake in Shelby County, Alabama. He drove five to ten minutes until he reached Robinson's private road, which was blocked by a locked…