Morton v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted of the crime of burglary in the second degree, and his punishment fixed at a term of three years in the state penitentiary, from which judgment the defendant has appealed to this court.

Virgil Cochran, an accomplice, with Virgil Morton and Clifford Morton, defendants, testified they went to the store of Mr. Allen, at Wade, at night, broke the window lights, and he and the defendant entered the store and carried out certain goods from the store, and the defendant Clifford Morton watched on the outside. This burglary…