Rice v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

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

The circumstances were sufficient to show that shortly after midnight on the third of March, 1934, appellant, in an effort to commit burglary, cut a screen and raised a window of a drug store occupied and controlled by Roy Chinn. Appellant did not testify and introduced no witnesses.

Two bills of exception are brought forward. It is shown in bill No. 1 that an officer testified, over appellant’s objection; that he returned to the scene of the burglary in the early morn ing and…