Finch v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

The conviction is for burglary; the punishment, enhanced under Art. 63, Vernon’s Ann.P.C., by reason of two prior convictions for felonies less than capital, life imprisonment.

The state’s evidence shows that the prosecuting witness, J. K. Witt, owned and operated a business known as the W. W. Sales Company, located at 4813 North Shepherd in the city of Houston. The witness Joe Goodner, who was employed by Witt at the business, lived in an apartment just across the street.

On the night in question, the witness Ronald Robert Sherman, a boy fifteen years of age, came to…