Ray v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

The burglary indictment, in proper form, charged that the defendant (appellant), with intent to steal, broke into and entered the store of Velma Moseley, etc. The store was located in Akron, a small town in Hale County.

The fact of the corpus delicti was sufficiently proven by the evidence of the State, that upon closing the store, the night before the alleged burglary, all doors, windows and openings of the store were shut or locked, and that upon opening the store for business early next morning several sacks of flour and tobacco (in the store when closed the night before)…