Buchannon v. State

Anthony Carl ("A.C.") Buchannon was convicted of first degree burglary and sentenced as a habitual offender to ninety-nine years' imprisonment. Three issues are raised in this appeal from that conviction.

Melanie McKee and her parents left the trailer in which they resided around 10:30 or 11:00 a.m. on October 14, 1987. They returned around noon to find that the trailer had been broken into and that several items of personal property, including a television, camera, and 12-gauge shotgun, were missing. Melanie and her mother spotted a black male driving a gold colored automobile out of the…