Xanthull v. State

OPINION

DICE, Commissioner.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, six years.

The indictment charged the burglary of a house occupied and controlled by G. M. Shepard.

Shepard, the prosecuting witness, testified that he was yard manager for the Griesenbeck Lumber Company in the city of Angleton. On Saturday, September 25, 1965, the witness closed the business at noon for the week-end. All windows and doors to the building were locked. When he returned on Monday morning it was discovered that, without the witness’s consent, the building had been broken into and the place burglarized. One of the…