Lockhart v. State

Appellant was convicted of stealing a suit of clothes. The testimony for the state showed that the suit of clothes testified to have been stolen was kept by the owner, one Turner Coger, at the home of one Dan Andrews, where he lived; that the defendant, who complainéd of being sick, was, at noonday, left lying on the porch of this home by the occupants, who went off to the field to work; that, upon the return of one of them in about an hour and a half, the defendant was gone, likewise the suit of clothes; that a trunk in the house was found to have been broken open in the interim, and there…