State v. Wallace

WERNICK, Justice.

Defendant David Wallace has appealed from judgments of conviction entered in the Superior Court (Washington County) on the verdict of a jury finding him guilty of two counts of Burglary (17-A M.R.S.A. § 401) and two counts of Theft (17-A M.R. S.A. § 353).

The evidence justified the jury in finding the following facts as to a large number of guns stolen from the homes of Bert Ashby and Wayne Ashby, father and son.

Bert Ashby noticed that one gun from his sizable collection had disappeared sometime before March 9, 1980. On March 10, he ascertained that several more guns, and a…