Edwards v. State

BEAUCHAMP, Judge.

The appeal is from a sentence of two years in the penitentiary on a charge of burglary.

It is alleged that appellant, a nineteen-year-old negro boy, together with two companions who were of the juvenile age, burglarized a filling station belonging to H. L. Mayfield. The two boys were first arrested and made a confession implicating the appellant. He was arrested and taken with them to the county jail in Waco at which place each of the boys signed a statement giving the facts upon which the State relies for a conviction.

When the case was called for trial the attorney for…