State v. Allen

EUGENE E. NORTHERN, Special Judge.

A Newton County jury found defendant Bob Allen guilty of burglary in the second degree and stealing, but the jury was unable to agree upon defendant’s punishment. After a timely motion for new trial was filed and overruled, the trial judge ordered the defendant confined in the State Department of Corrections for a term of four years on the charge of burglary in the second degree and a term of four years upon the charge of burglarious stealing and ordered that the sentences were to run consecutively.

The defendant contends on this appeal:(1) The trial court…