Elg v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for four years.

The store of M. E. Avant was burglariously entered on the night of the 15th of September, 1934, by prizing off the lock on the door. The safe in which he kept his money was blown open, and a quantity of money and a pocket knife taken therefrom. Witnesses who heard the explosion fixed the time at 3 a. m. Appellant and some other men were in the store about, sundown of the evening prior to the burglary. They drove there in a Nash automobile which was later identified as being-the property of…