Hanes v. State

341 S.W.2d 428 (1960)

Ernest HANES, Appellant,

v.

STATE of Texas, Appellee.

No. 32109.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

October 5, 1960.

Rehearing Denied November 30, 1960.

Wilson F. Walters, Denison, for appellant.

Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

WOODLEY, Judge.

The offense is attempt to commit burglary; the punishment, two years.

About 1:45 A.M. R. D. Arthur, of the Denison Police Department, was making a patrol check of business places. He saw two men at the rear door of Clay's Drive-In Grocery "up against the door." The men "ducked down" behind a compressor and some pop…