Shepherd v. State

Appellant was tried in the Criminal District Court of Harris county, on the first Monday in February, 1875, on an indictment charging him with having, on the 23d day of June, 1874, “ about the hour of one of the night of the “ same day, entered the dwelling-house of one Martin Smith, “ feloniously, fraudulently, and burglariously, with the intent to “ steal the corporeal personal property of said Smith, and to “ steal, take, and carry away out of the house and from the pos- “ session of said Smith, said property, without the consent of the “ said owner, and with the intent to appropriate the…