Cristee v. State

Melvin Mayfield, Judge.

Appellant was found guilty by a jury of the crime of attempted burglary. He was sentenced as an habitual offender to a term of 10 years in the Arkansas Department of Correction and fined $5,000.

Joy Butler, who lived directly across the street from Meadors Lumber Company, in Alma, Arkansas, testified that on the night of December 18,1986, her husband, who had taken the dog out, came back into the house and told her that the lumberyard burglar alarm was going off. She stepped out on her front porch and saw a man trying to climb over the fence that enclosed the lumberyard.…