Westfall v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is under Art. 1402a, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., for unlawfully breaking and entering a coin-operated machine; the punishment, two years in the penitentiary.

The state’s evidence shows that the prosecuting, witness, Walter A. Keller, owned a coin-operated laundry which was located across the street from his home in the city of Huntsville. On the night in question, while in his home Keller observed an automobile being driven up to the laundry and stop. Appellant and another man and woman got out of the automobile and went inside the laundry. The laundry was well lighted…