Morphey v. State

CALHOUN, Judge.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

This is a case of circumstantial evidence. Briefly, the facts are as follows: The appellant and one Marion Stanley had been associated and connected with each other for some time prior to the alleged offense. They traveled in an automobile belonging to the appellant and a trailer was attached thereto. On Monday preceding the time of their arrest they were in Granbury in Hood county. The evidence showed that they stopped at the home of the injured party, Aiken, for the purpose, as claimed by them, of looking…