State v. Mathis

SMITH, Judge.

Defendants appeal criminal convictions of breaking and entering, assault on a female, and injury to real property. Evidence presented at trial tended to show that defendants are licensed bail bondsmen. On 9 December 1995, defendant Mathis received instructions from his employer to find and arrest William Tankersly III because he had “skipped bail.”

Defendants drove to the residence of Tankersly’s mother where Tankersly lived. Tankersly’s sister answered the door. She told defendants that her brother and mother had left about twenty minutes before in a white Mazda. Later that…