Hill v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

— The offense is burglary; the punishment confinement in the penitentiary for ten years.

The State relied upon circumstantial evidence. A bank in the town of Peacock was burglarized. A pistol carried by one of the offenders was accidentally discharged and the burglars fled leaving a safe which had been carried from the bank, an automobile trailer and a pistol. The pistol appeared to have been recently discharged. Among the tracks leading to the bank appeared those of a deformed foot. Shortly prior to the burglary appellant and other parties were seen together near the town of…