Allen v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted of burglary, and sentenced to serve a term in the state penitentiary. He prosecutes an appeal here.

The evidence for the State shows that the Dixie Sandwich Shop, operated by Frank Jones, at midnight of December 20, 1936y was securely locked by him; that upon being notified an hour or more later that his place of business had been broken into, he went there and found that the screen ventilator over the front door had been cut all the way across, and also that a slot machine music box had been broken into; that some candy was missing, and some sausage had…