State v. Coleman

The defendant was found guilty of burglary by a jury and sentenced to 3 to 5 years imprisonment.

On June 9, 1975, the defendant began drinking about noon. He testified that he remembers nothing from a point in the early evening until he woke up in the police station the next morning. At about 1:30 a. m., the defendant was seen by several witnesses in front of a bar and grill in downtown Omaha. He appeared to be in an intoxicated stupor. An acquaintance of the defendant could not rouse him from the stupor but turned off the lights and engine of defendant’s pick-up, which was parked in front of…