Elkins v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Wilson. Tried below before the Hon. E. A. Stevens. Appeal from a conviction of burglary; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
McCORD, Judge.
Appellant was tried and convicted of the offense of burglary and his punishment assessed at confinement in the penitentiary for two years.
It appears from the statement of facts that on June 4, 1908, the mercantile store of Stobbs Brothers, at Sutherland Springs, Wilson County, was burglarized and several articles stolen from the store. Twelve packages of searchlight matches and four dozen cases of milk of the Eagle brand; also some shirts, Stetson hats and a two pound cake of beeswax. Some of these articles, or articles similar to these, were found in appellant’s house the next…
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