Cozart v. State

PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary, with the lowest punishment assessed.

The uncontradicted testimony shows that during the night of December 29, 1915, Mr. Threllteld’s chicken house, in San Antonio, was burglarized and some seventy-five chickens, sixty-five of them fine black Minorcas, and a can of oil, were stolen therefrom at the time. The Minorcas were worth from $1 to $1.50 each. Threlkeld discovered the burglary and theft before daylight on the morning of December 30th, and at once began to search for his stolen property. He soon located forty-five of his…