Boyd v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglarizing a railroad car, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The State makes out its case mainly through the witnesses Wyght and Gatliss, who were respectively conductor and brakeman on the Santa Fe Bailroad. The railroad car was what the witnesses term a caboose. The two witnesses mentioned had been on the train which had come in from Cleburne to the city of Dallas; the caboose had been switched to one side on one of the tracks. The two railroad men were asleep in the car, and heard a noise and…