State v. Ortiz

HATHAWAY, Judge.

The defendant, tried and convicted by a jury, of burglary and grand theft, challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the convictions. He also contends that the convictions should be reversed because of the “apparent hostility, bias and prejudice on the part of the trial judge. ”

Reviewing the evidence most favorably to sustain the conviction, the following facts are disclosed. At about 3:20 a. m. on February 12, 1967, Officer Hust and Sergeant Greene, of the Tucson Police Department, received a radio broadcast in their respective patrol vehicles that a silent…