Gratton v. State

The defendant was convicted of first degree burglary, Alabama Code § 13A-7-5 (a)(1) (1975), and sentenced as an habitual offender to life imprisonment without parole.

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The State's case was based primarily upon circumstantial evidence with the central issue being that of identification. The victim could not positively identify the defendant, but the discovery of his fingerprints on the sill of the window determined to be the point of entry into the victim's residence, when weighed with the remainder of the State's evidence, was sufficient for the jury to have reasonably found that the State's…