State v. Coleman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming burglary conviction where window glass from a burgled home had the defendant’s fingerprints on both sides of the glass
• explaining in case where defendant’s fingerprints were on both sides of a piece of broken glass from window that “[t]his kind of breaking and entry alone justifies an inference of an intent to commit a theft of property inside.”
• “The essence of theft under our code is the obtaining of unlawful control over property of another with the intent to deprive.”
• “The evidence of entry is the defendant’s fingerprints found on both sides of a piece of glass of the same shape and size as the piece missing from the victim’s broken window.”
• “Both the intent to deprive and the control required for a theft conviction can be inferred from the unauthorized entry, the absence of the victim’s possessions, the presence of defendant’s fingerprints in a place inaccessible to the general public, and the absence of any other explanation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• State v. Bruggeman
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1989-03-28· cited 43×
• State v. Cotten
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2011-09-20· cited 14×
• State v. Mitchell
  Court of Appeals of South Carolina· 1998-09-28· cited 7×
• People v. Beauchamp
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 2009-03-09· cited 5×
• State v. Hoag
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1990-08-28· cited 3×
• State v. Gulley
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2016-10-04· cited 1×

Cites

11 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• State v. Hunter
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1983-04-13· cited 75×
• State v. Dixon
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 2006-02-25· cited 49×
• State v. Hutton
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1960-02-10· cited 42×
• People v. Toolate
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-03-23· cited 39×
• State v. Crosby
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1985-05-07· cited 21×
• People v. Tatem
  California Court of Appeal· 1976-10-07· cited 19×
• State v. Arnold
  Arizona Supreme Court· 1977-06-08· cited 18×
• State v. Garcia
  Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1983-09-26· cited 16×
• People v. Fico
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1985-03-05· cited 10×
• Miles v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-10-11· cited 8×
• Alston v. State
  Supreme Court of Delaware· 1980-01-17· cited 3×