Scott v. State

This is an appeal by Jack Scott, hereinafter called the defendant, from a conviction on a charge of burglarizing the Denton State Bank with explosives on the night of January 29/30, 1930. The evidence is wholly circumstantial.

*234The state relies for conviction on evidence that in a house, garage and curtilage rented by one Holtzclaw and occupied by him, his wife, and little child, as a home, on the day ensuing the commission of the burglary, there was found, concealed, burglar tools, dynamite, caps and fuses for same, two bottles of nitroglycerine, a syringe for use therewith, two révolvers, one…