California Court of Appeal

Under Penal Code sections 459, evidence that appellants entered apartment for the specific purpose of tracking down the victim in order to assault him, even though they did not know where they would ultimately find the victim, is sufficient to establish the intent element of burglary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/12/2001
• Published 07/12/2001

Judges

• HORNER, J.**

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
•  Alan Siraco, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for defendant and appellant Mario Dwayne Griffin., Janet J. Gray, Pacific Grove, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for defendant and appellant Tyrone Dushawn Griffin., Bill Lockyer, Attorney General, David P. Druliner, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Ronald A. Bass, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Laurence K. Sullivan, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Thomas A. Brady, Deputy Attorney General, for plaintiff and respondent.