Billups v. State

MARTIN, Judge.

Offense, burglary; penalty, three years in the penitentiary.

About January 12, 1930, the mercantile establishment of Ray & Haws was burglarized and a quantity of merchandise taken therefrom. Some three weeks later a room occupied by appellant was entered by an officer without a search warrant and in the absence of appellant a trunk was taken therefrom in which was found a quantity of the goods identified as having come from the burglarized premises.

Objection to the reception of the evidence of the searching officer as to the contents of the trunk aforesaid because of the alleged…