Merriweather v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This is a conviction for burglary. The evidence is sufficient to show that the house of Max L. Block was entered and his property taken, though it is a case purely of circumstantial evidence. About a month after the alleged burglary, appellant was arrested by a policeman in the City of Houston, who stated that he arrested appellant on Fannin street in that city at which time he had on a check shirt; that Mr. Block had given the police department a description of the shirt and other articles which had been taken. That he held appellant under arrest until Mr. Block…