Brown v. State

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary in the District Court of Titus County, and his punishment fixed at two years in the penitentiary from which he appeals.

Sometime in April, 1918, a grocery warehouse at Mount Pleasant, Titus County, Texas, was burglarized at night and six buckets of lard, constituting a case, were taken out of said house. It appears that a part of the material of the back door was prized off, making a hole large enough to admit a man’s body. It was in testimony that there were about fifty cases of lard near the front of said warehouse and that one of them was…