Banks v. State

Birdsong, Judge.

M. B. Banks was convicted of burglary and sentenced to twenty years, fifteen to serve and five on probation. He brings this appeal enumerating as error the insufficiency of the evidence and denial of a new trial on the same ground. Held:

The evidence shows that the victims of the burglary left their home at about 1:30 p. m. on a Sunday afternoon to go shopping. As they left, they saw Banks, whom they had known most of his life, in front of their home. When they returned at about 4:30 p. m., they observed the front door of their home had been “kicked in” and was barely hanging…