Dennis v. State

DICKSON, Justice.

Leon Dennis, defendant, appeals his conviction of burglary, a class B felony. 1 He raises two issues:

1) failure to either declare a mistrial or admonish the jury about a newspaper article; and,

2) sufficiency of evidence.

We affirm.

ISSUE I

On the morning of the first day of evidence at defendant's trial, the local morning newspaper contained the following:

Jury selection was completed Tuesday afternoon in the burglary trial of an Anderson man.

Leon Dennis, 49, is charged with a May 1982 house burglary.

DENNIS WAS convicted of two similar crimes on May 23 by a Superior Court I jury.

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