Richard v. State

DAVIDSON, Judge.

This is a conviction for burglary, with punishment assessed at six years in the penitentiary.

The premises burglarized were those of the Collins Insurance Agency, owned and operated by Ben T. Collins.

The state’s testimony was circumstantial, and the trial court so recognized by submitting the case to the jury upon that theory.

The appellant did not testify as a witness in the case.

A bill of exception appears to the opening argument of state’s counsel, as follows:

“ ‘No one denies Collins Insurance Agency was broken into, and that it happened on October 8, 1955. Here you have a…