Holland v. State

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

A jury found appellant guilty of burglary of a habitation and, after proof of enhancing offenses, sentenced him to forty years in the Texas Department of Corrections. At trial, the complainant testified that appellant, her next door neighbor in an apartment complex, knocked at her door at approximately 3:45 a.m. to ask for some cooking grease. She left the door to her apartment “cracked” while retrieving it for him. Appellant, without invitation, joined her in the kitchen and told her that he had always “wanted” her since she first moved into the complex. He then…