Paul Frederickson v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

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

The blacksmith shop of A. T. Jobe was burglarized on the night of January 21, 1935, and an electric drill taken therefrom. This drill was found in the possession of appellant about the first of February, 1935, after officers searched his garage. When the drill was discovered appellant fled.

Appellant did not testify, but introduced witnesses who declared that the drill in question had been purchased by appellant from John Ford. Ford testified for the State, denying that he had sold the drill…