Poole v. State

The appellant, Carl Franklin Poole, was indicted, tried and convicted at the July 1955 Term of the Circuit Court of Rankin County on a charge of burglary, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the state'penitentiary for a term of two years. From that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The testimony of the State’s witnesses shows that the building which was burglarized was a store building in the Town of Pelahatchie owned and occupied by Grayden Cauthen. The crime was committed during the early morning of October 2, 1953. Cauthen testified that he closed his store at 12:00 o’clock noon on…