Russell v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis. Tried below before the Hon. James R. Hamilton, judge. Appeal from a conviction of burglary; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.
1Opinion of the Court
DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.
—Appellant was convicted of night burglary and allotted five years in the penitentiary.
The evidence shows that the door through which the burglar entered was forcibly opened by him. It was securely shut or closed and. in the early morning just before day some one entered by forcing .open this door. Mrs. Hopkins, owner of the house, called her son and notified him of the fact that some one was in the house, and who ever it was disappeared without taking anything so far as *588was discoverable. Search was instituted and tracks were traced of a peculiar kind of the house of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Alexander v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1892
3Cited by3 opinions
- Markham v. State, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1988
- Thomas v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1936
- Marina v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922