James v. State

Defendant, Jake James, was charged in the district court of Bryan county with the crime of burglary in the second degree, was tried, ¡convicted, sentenced to serve a term of two years in the State Penitentiary, and has appealed.

From an examination of the record, it becomes necessary to discuss only one assignment of error.

Defendant was charged with burglarizing a building occupied by the tag agent of Bryan county, in Durant, on the night of May 17, 1940, by prying open a transom, entering therein and stealing a money box containing $18.70.

Just after defendant had committed this burglary, he…