Powers v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the Criminal District Court of Dallas. Tried below before the Hon. W. L. Crawford. Appeal from a conviction of burglary; penalty, five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
PRENDERGAST, Presiding Judge.
Appellant appeals from a conviction for burglary with the lowest penalty affixed.
Appellant raises but two questions in the case. First, he claims the evidence is insufficient to support a conviction. Second, that there is a fatal variance between the allegations and proof of the ownership and possession of the burglarized house.
The uncontradicted evidence clearly establishes that on the night of March 4, 1913, a storehouse was burglarized by breaking into one of the windows and at the time certain property was stolen therefrom. Among other articles then stolen…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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- Ex Parte PattersonCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1900
- Barfield v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1898
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- Duncan v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1905
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- Blackburn v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1915
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