Roderick Rolling was convicted by a jury of one count of burglary. He was sentenced as a recidivist to 20 years in confinement. His motion for new trial was denied, and he appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence and contending that he was denied effective assistance of counsel. We find no reversible error, and we affirm. 1. We first address Rolling’s contention that the evidence was insufficient to convict him. Construed in favor of the jury’s verdict, the evidence presented at trial shows that the victim lived in one unit of a duplex, and Rolling lived with his girlfriend and her children in the other unit. On October 16, 2000, the victim arrived home from work at approximately 4:45 p.m and left a short time later. She testified that when she returned at about 7:00 p.m., Rolling “was on the porch area and he told me that he had accidentally kicked the window and the pane was broke.” The victim instructed Rolling to “get the landlord to fix it” and entered her residence. She testified that the broken window, which was located in an extra bedroom, “had fissures going out” and that a hole in the glass was “maybe big enough for you to stick your hand in up to the wrist . . . without getting cut.” She applied cement glue to the fissures and cracks and “glued some paper up to the hole.” She unsuccessfully tried to wedge a stick in the window and then “used some small nails to nail along the top of the stick so that it could not be pushed up.” The victim then moved a bookshelf in front of the window and pushed a “solid arm chair” against it. The bookshelf was larger than the window and “was full of books and stuffed toys.”
Two days later, on October 18, shortly after being notified that her security alarm was sounding, the victim arrived home to find the same window completely broken and the bookshelf turned over onto the floor. She determined that some jewelry was missing from her bathroom. Broken glass was discovered outside the broken window but not inside the extra bedroom. An empty compact disc case was also found on the ground. Rolling’s fingerprints were lifted from pieces of the glass lying on the ground, as well as from the compact disc case, which belonged to the victim. The victim testified that she had 15 compact discs, which she never took into her extra bedroom.
