Conway v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Chas. Feed Tuckee. This appeal is from a conviction for burglary, the punishment assessed being imprisonment for six years in the penitentiary.
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Appeal from the District Court of Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Chas. Feed Tuckee. This appeal is from a conviction for burglary, the punishment assessed being imprisonment for six years in the penitentiary. Appellant and Jack Brazell and Allen Forrester were each separately indicted for this crime, which was the burglary of the store of J. B. May, in tbe village of Farmer’s Branch, Dallas County, on the 4th day of February, 1893. The case is concisely but sufficiently stated in the opinion, as are also the matters pertaining to the admission of the evidence objected to at the trial. The…
1Opinion of the Court
HURT, PRESIDING Judge.
This is a conviction for burglary. The conviction depends mainly upon the testimony of Allen Forrester, a confessed principal in the crime. The burglary was committed on the night of February 4, 1893, it being Saturday night. Forrester swears most positively that Brazell, defendant, and he left Dallas on Friday evening, the 3rd of February, and went to Farmer’s Branch, at which place the burglary was committed; that they did not enter the house that night, but went down the railroad track about a quarter of a mile towards Dallas, and went to one side across the branch,…
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