Ford v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, burglary; penalty, four years in the penitentiary.

The sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction is vigorously assailed. About the night of the 14th day of July, 1927, the Continental State Bank of Beckville was burglarized. The vault door was burned through and about $1284.00 was taken from the bank. The State introduced as a witness G. C. Jenkins, an admitted accomplice, who testified .in substance that the burglary of the said bank was committed by himself, Fred Walker, E. W. Rousseau and appellant on the night in question; that they drove over in a Ford…