Clary v. State

OPINION

GREEN, Commissioner.

Appellant was convicted of burglary on a plea of not guilty in a trial before a jury. His punishment was assessed at two years.

In his first ground of error, appellant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support the conviction, in that the State failed to introduce evidence independent of the testimony of the accomplice Roger Hobgood tending to connect appellant with the commission of the crime.

The evidence admittedly proved a burglary of Spanky’s Bar, owned and operated by Frank Harris, in Kermit on December 22, 1970, sometime between midnight and 7:00 a.…