Handy v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

It appears that about Christmas in 1912 a box car of the International & Great Northern Railway Company, on the sidetrack at Huntsville, was broken open and three pairs of shoes stolen therefrom. The shoes were the property of L. M. Holman, and some days after the burglary and theft Sam Hunter carried a pair of shoes to Sir. Holman and desired to exchange them for a larger pair of shoes—one was a and the other 7-J. Sir. Holman recognized the shoes as a portion of those…