Teague v. State

Pope, Judge.

Gary E. Battles and Gregory E. Teague were indicted separately for the burglary of the residence of Mattie Williams, tried together and convicted. They appeal, enumerating as error the insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdicts and the refusal of the trial judge to recharge the jury upon request that no inference should be drawn from the failure of the defendants to take the stand in their own behalf.

1. The state introduced evidence establishing that Mrs. Williams returned from work on December 20,1980 to discover that her house had been burglarized. She called the…