Preston v. State

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

Melody Preston appeals from her conviction of burglary in a dwelling1 and the superior court’s sentence of eight years imprisonment, with three years suspended.

The only direct evidence adduced at trial of Preston’s involvement in the burglary itself was presented by an accomplice, Franklin Clay.2 Franklin testified at trial that on the morning of March 9, 1977, he, Preston, and Robert Clay gave Franklin’s wife a ride to her job at the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital. At Robert Clay’s suggestion, they then drove to the residence of Charles “Chico” Williams in order…