Woolen v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is burglary of a railroad car; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

On the 23rd of December, 1939, a freight train of the T. & P. Railroad picked up a box car at Texarkana carrying some merchandise which was billed to W. I. Frost of Mansfield, Louisiana. Some of the merchandise in question consisted of turpentine, castor oil and cane syrup. The train moved from Texarkana about 11:55 p. m. of December 23rd and proceeded to Jefferson in Marion County, arriving there in the early morning of December 24th, where it stopped to take water. The…