Humphries v. State

This is a conviction for the daytime burglary of the private residence of Harry Deaver.

According to the testimony of Deaver, his residence was broken into and a portable sewing machine and automatic rifle were taken therefrom on June 18, 1955, about eleven o’clock in the morning. Deaver described the location of his house as being about one mile east of Bluff Dale on Highway 377 and about 75 or 100 yards from and north of that highway which runs from “Stephenville through Bluff Dale” to Fort Worth.

The witness testified that the front wall of the house across the front porch was “white pine…