Hardison v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Zenoff, J.:

Jerry Mackta returned to his apartment at about 10:00 p.m. of the evening of July 3, 1964. He parked his car behind a red Pontiac automobile which, in turn, was parked in front of the apartment. Mackta noticed some clothes sticking out of the Pontiac which upon closer inspection turned out to be his clothes. Just then a man, later identified as the appellant, came out of the locked apartment, ordered Mackta out of the way, and sped off in the Pontiac. Mackta finding his apartment ransacked notified the police, giving them a description of the burglar and the…