Singleton v. State

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, two years.

M. A. Gainer, a general merchant at Rochelle, testified that his place of business was burglarized sometime during the night of September 18, 1950, and a great many dry goods items, as well as money and checks from the safe, were taken therefrom. He stated that on the day before the burglary he had inspected the shelves in which he kept men’s hats and that he saw there in its accustomed place a box for the only size 7% hat which he had in stock at that time. He stated that it was never his practice to leave an empty hat box on…