Broner v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of burglary of a private residence at night time, and assessed a penalty of five years in the penitentiary. Three grounds are presented upon which a reversal is sought: the first is insufficiency of the evidence; second, the action of the court in correcting the verdict returned by the jury; and the third relates to the sufficiency of the indictment.

Appellant is a negro, sixty-six years of age, and testifying in his own behalf he says that he has been blind for a period of forty-six years. He lives in the town of Detroit in Red River County, and is…