Gradington v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary and his penalty fixed at two years in the penitentiary.

The evidence is amply sufficient to show that for some two or three years prior to July 29, 1911, the date on which the offense is charged to have been committed, appellant lived with and probably “kept” Patsy Foster, the injured party; that some time before the commission of the offense she quit him and went back to her mother’s; that, it seems, another negro man was paying her attention and had gone with her and brought her back from some gathering the night the offense is charged;…