Thornton v. State

HARPER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary, and his punishment assessed at two years confinement in the State penitentiary.'

There are four bills of exception, but they present but two questions for review. The first is that as the indictment alleged appellant broke and entered the house of G. H. Willbanks with the intent to steal property therefrom belonging to G. H. Willbanks, that the State ought to have been limited to proof of such allegations, and when the evidence showed that the property in the house was the joint property of G. H. Willbanks and J. D. Pittman, the State ought…