State v. Hillman

COLLINS, Justice.

Following a jury trial, the Superior Court (York County, Cole, J.) convicted the Defendant-Appellant, Charles Hillman, of Class C burglary in violation of 17-A M.R. S.A. § 401 (1983), and a Class C theft in violation of 17-A M.R.S.A. § 353 (1983), for breaking into the St. Louis Alumni Association’s locked office and taking checks from the Biddeford High School’s checkbook kept in the Association’s office. Hillman appeals the burglary conviction, arguing first that the State failed to prove one of the elements of the burglary charge, and second that the Superior Court gave an…