Strickland v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for burglary, punishment being twelve years in the penitentiary.

The indictment in the present case charged by proper averments that appellant on July 2d, 1929, burglarized a house occupied and controlled by D. H. Brogden with the intent to commit the crime of theft; the indictment then proceeds with the following allegation:

“And the Grand Jury aforesaid do further present that said E. W. Strickland heretofore and prior to the commission by the said E. W. Strickland of said burglary, which is hereinbefore charged against him, he, the said E. W. Strickland under the…