Barker v. State

DAVIDSON", Judge.

Appellant was convicted of receiving and concealing stolen property, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.

The State’s case is shown by the testimony of a confessed accomplice, Hugh Davis. A house in Elgin, Bastrop County, was burglarized. The theory of the State was that Hugh Davis, John Davis and some negroes committed the burglary, and appellant, living ten or twelve miles away in Williamson County, received some or all of the goods taken from the house. There is no contention that appellant had anything to do with the burglary; that…