Vickery v. State

HARPER, Judge.

In this case appellant was charged with the offense of burglary, in several counts, and on a trial was convicted of burglary with intent to commit theft, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.

Defendant was a manufacturer of soda-water, and had resided at Ennis for twenty years. Charles Hogan opened up another soda-water manufactory at Ennis. Defendant met him and told him that several had tried to run an opposition manufactory to him, and he' had always succeeded in putting them out of business, and it would not take him (defendant) long…