Jones v. State

This appeal is prosecuted from a conviction of violation of the statute on a charge of possessing burglary tools.

Appellant was indicted jointly with Hollis Ponder for violation of the statutes, § 2438, C. & M. Digest, the indictment charging in the language of the statute, ‘ ‘ accuse the defendants, of the crime of possession of burglary tools,” and specifically that the defendants “unlawfully and feloniously did have in their custody and possession a certain false key, which was then and there adapted, designed and commonly used for breaking and entering into store buildings, dwelling…