Merwin v. State

355 S.W.2d 721 (1962)

Samuel E. MERWIN, Appellant,

v.

The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 34096.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

January 17, 1962.

Rehearing Denied March 14, 1962.

Richard Bird, Childress, McCarthy, Carnahan, Fields & Haynes, Amarillo (George S. McCarthy, Amarillo, of counsel), for appellant.

John T. Forbis, Dist. Atty., Childress, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for burglary; the punishment, two years.

The State's witness, Ruth Ware, operated a beauty shop in the City of Turkey in Hall County which was located in a…