Crawford v. State

HAWKINS, Judge.

Conviction is for burglary, punishment being assessed at two years in the penitentiary.

Tennison and Hodge were in the butcher business in Belton. About a mile from town they had a butcher pen and a “hide house.” In the latter part of February, 1934, the “hide house” was entered and sixteen hides which had been salted down were taken. A day or two later the hides were found at the Miller Produce Company’s place of business in Austin, and identified by Hodge as the hides which had been stolen.

The State introduced appellant’s confession in which he said that on February 27th,…