TATE, Justice.
The defendant Alexander was convicted of simple burglary, La.R.S. 14:62, and sentenced, as a second offender, La.R.S. 15:529.1, to serve nine years imprisonment at hard labor.
The defendant's appeal urges a total absence of evidence that he committed the burglary charged. The evidence at most proves, he contends, a criminal trespass into the fenced yard of the victim or an attempted (but unsuccessful) burglary.
La.R.S. 14:62 defines...
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