Shipp v. State

OPINION

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is attempted burglary; the punishment, three (3) years.

Appellant’s first ground of error challenges the sufficiency of the evidence. The record reflects that Dallas police officers, responding to a silent burglar alarm, apprehended the appellant, in an alley behind a business owned by Elmer Sitton, wearing gloves and in possession of a pry bar. There were fresh pry marks on the door and a portion of one of the bolts on the door had been forced off. In res ges-tae statements to the officers and by his testimony at trial, the appellant stated that he intended…