Belton v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

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

Meat missing from the burglarized premises was found in a house occupied by appellant and his family and identified.

Appellant’s defense was that this meat had been purchased from a peddler by his wife a short time before the alleged burglary. His wife testified to this fact and he made application for a continuance on account of the absence of three witnesses, all residing in Tarrant County, by whom he alleges he could prove substantially the same facts as testified to by his wife. It w;as alleged that all of said…