Chastain v. State

Defendant, Claude Chastain, was charged jointly with Virgil Mobley in the district court of Caddo county with the crime of burglary in the second degree. Virgil Mobley demanded a severance, and defendant was tried separately before a jury which found him guilty and assessed his punishment at two years’ confinement in the penitentiary, from which conviction defendant has appealed.

This appeal was filed on the 19th day of February, 1941, but no. brief has been filed and no1 oral argument has been made in support of defendant’s assignment of errors, although the time to file brief granted by the…