Garcia v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

Attempt to commit burglary is the offense ; the punishment, two years.

The state’s evidence shows that on the night in question city officers Gonzales and Meadows were on routine patrol duty in the city of McAllen. While traveling east in their patrol car on Austin Avenue, Officer Gonzales, with the aid of a spotlight, saw a man in an alley a block and a half away, standing by a large dumpster (a metal trash container). They then proceeded into the alley and stopped behind a store building in which John Womeldorf conducted a sporting goods business. The dumpster near where…