Annis v. State

The defendant was convicted of burglary. The jury was authorized to find that the corpus delicti had been proved as alleged in the indictment. The pressure here is not on whether the burglary had been committd, but whether the defendant was guilty of the burglary as charged in the indictment.

The jury was. authorized to find that on Sunday, October 29, 1950, between 8:30 p.m. and 6:30 the next morning the burglary was committed; that the defendant, Tom Annis, and Perk Griffin were together the night of the burglary, from “just about night until 9 p.m.”; that Griffin rode home with the…