Nixon v. State

266 S.W.2d 150 (1954)

NIXON

v.

STATE.

No. 26730.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

February 3, 1954.

Rehearing Denied March 24, 1954.

Rucks, Enlow & Kee, Robert C. Koonce, Angleton, for appellant.

Wesley Dice, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.

MORRISON, Judge.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, 9 years.

L. B. Cook testified that his motor company building in the City of Pearsall was burglarized on the night of January 12, 1949, and that the safe therein had been laid on its back and the door forced open.

Sheriff Dobbs testified that he, in company with Ranger White, secured custody of…