Mangum v. State

GRAVES, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of burglary of a private residence at nighttime, and by the jury assessed a penalty of five years in the penitentiary.

The facts show that some one made an entry at nighttime into the private residence of Mr. ■ Fuller through a window, and, upon the awakening of Mr. Fuller and his family, he, his wife and his twenty-year-old daughter Beth testified that the intruder was plainly seen by them in the light of a flashlight while being chased through this home of Mr. Fuller, and they all three positively identified such fleeing person as…