McCary v. State

Appellant was indicted tried, and convicted of the crime of burglary, and by the court sentenced to serve a term in the State Penitentiary.

The evidence on behalf of the state was a detailed written confession of the burglary signed by the appellant, and also a very complete statement of the facts of the crime by a state witness who was an accomplice.

By the evidence for the state the crime of burglary-was fully made out, and the only evidence offered by appellant in opposition thereto was evidence of his good reputation.(1) There was no evidence controverting the testimony of the officers that…