Roach v. State

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

LATTIMORE, Judge.

Appellants pleaded guilty to felony theft and were each given the lowest penalty. Suspended sentence was not given, as prayed for. Many witnesses for the defense testified to the good reputation of each appellant, all of whom were young men of good families, but each appellant had admitted, — in written confessions which were introduced, —his complicity in the taking of a safe by burglary, the rifling of the safe and the division of its contents amounting to several hundred dollars, all of which was later returned to the owner.

All the bills of exception…