Cooper v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Kiowa county of burglary in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at a term of two years in the state penitentiary.

The record discloses that at the time, charged the smokehouse or meathouse of one Floyd May was burglarized on the night before ■ Christmas, and a quantity of meat stolen. The evidence for the state is that defendant lived about two miles from May’s residence. May testified that he and his brother butchered the meat a week before the burglary, that he trimmed the hams closely and…