Ross v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

On the 21st of September, 1933, Allen Chapman’s barn was burglarized and a quantity of “Kasch” cotton taken therefrom. The day after the burglary the cotton was found in appellant’s cotton house and identified by Chapman. Appellant’s cotton house was locked. In opening the house for the searching parties, appellant stated that he had the only key to said house. The proof on the part of the State showed that tracks led from a point near the burglarized house' in the direction of appellant’s…