Boose v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The offense is burglary, punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years.

The burglary was proved by direct evidence, but the appellant’s connection with it was circumstantial. It consists almost altogether of testimony of officers who searched the dwelling-house of the appellant and obtained therefrom some articles which were identified as having come from the burglarized premises. Against the receipt of such testimony, objection was urged that in the absence of valid authority the search was illegal under Arts. 4 and 4a, C. C. P., 1925,…