Bronson v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. Bobert B. Seay. Appeal from a conviction of burglary; penalty, two years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
McCORD, Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction for burglary, the penalty being assessed at two years in the State penitentiary.
From the statement of facts it appears that on the night of February 13, 1909, and about 13 o’clock at night, the prosecuting witness, W. H. Darnell, was aroused by an unusual noise around his premises. He got up out of bed, secured a gun and went out to a chicken house, which said chicken house was in his back yard. This chicken house was a closed building with walls and was covered. There was a door through which ingress and egress was made to the house. When the…
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