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- Title: Alonzo Gunn James Gunn v. State Indiana
- Author : Supreme Court of Indiana No. 570S117
- Release Date : January 24, 1972
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 60 KB
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Defendants (Appellants) were convicted by jury of entering to commit a felony, in violation of Acts of 1941, ch. 148, §
5, 1956 Repl. Burns Ind. Stat. Ann. § 10-704, IC 1971, 35-13-5-5. They were sentenced to imprisonment for an indeterminate
period of not less than one nor more than five years and disfranchised. On appeal, only the sufficiency of the evidence is
challenged. At approximately 2:30 a.m., in response to instructions from police headquarters, two police cars went to the scene of an
apparent break-in. The scene was a department store situated in a shopping center. It had last been seen in its normal state
at 4:00 p.m. on the preceding day. One of the officers went to the rear of the store and one to the front. The one going to
the rear came upon the defendant, Alonzo Gunn, sitting in his automobile parked nearby with the engine running. A pair of
bolt cutters were in the vehicle. At the same time, this officer saw another man run from the area of the store's loading
dock. The unidentified man ran around the building, and the officer radioed this information to the other policeman, who had
been dispatched to the front of the premises. The officer at the front, shortly thereafter, apprehended the defendant James
Gunn, walking around the building but winded and breathing hard. An inspection of the store disclosed that it had been broken
into by breaking through a door panel. Property therein had been moved about, but none had been removed. Inside, padlocks
on two doors had been cut. Outside, the padlocks on two trailers had been cut. The bolt cutters were introduced into evidence,
although the padlocks were not, and Officer Walterman, testifying for the State, said that in his opinion the bolt cutters
were capable of cutting the locks.