Wheeler v. State

GUILLOT, Justice.

This is an appeal from a conviction of burglary of a habitation for which the appellant was sentenced to forty-five years in prison. Because of the reasons below we affirm.

On April 21, 1980, between the hours of midnight and 6:00 a. m. the appellant, Horace Wheeler III, burgled the home of Dorothy Hooper, taking a $941 I.R.S. refund check, a gold watch, a .38 caliber pistol, her driver’s license, and fifty dollars in cash.

The next day appellant appeared at the fines bureau of city hall to pay an old traffic ticket fine. When the clerk put appellant’s name into the computer,…