Bonner v. State

DICE, Commissioner.

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

The state’s evidence shows that the state’s witness Edgar Hall and his wife lived in a house at 8211 Mendez, in the city of Houston. On the night in question, while Hall and his wife were away from home, a neighbor, Marvin Monzingo, saw the lights come on in the Hall residence and observed the appellant moving around in the kitchen. Monzingo proceeded across the street to a neighbor’s house and,…