Mason v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary: the indictment alleging that the entry into the house was made for the purpose of committing rape upon a named woman. The facts upon which the verdict is predicated, in substance show, that on the night of the alleged buglary, defendant entered the house and raised the screen fastened in the window opening into the room, where the girl slept; that under the window was a trunk in the room, the top of which reached a little above the top of the window sill; that appellant crawled in the window partly over this trunk, with his feet…