Legal Opinion

Jones v. State

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas

Decided April 14, 1920No. 5785PublishedCited by 11 opinions

The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted of burglary and given two years in the penitentiary.

The case is one of circumstantial evidence. The office of Dr. Withers was burglarized between five and nine o’clock on the evening of the 15th of August. A suit of clothes and a lot of drugs were taken. There seems to be no question of the fact that the office was entered and that these things were taken. This was in Fort Worth, in Tar-rant County. The next morning about 8 or 8:30 o’clock, in Ardmore, Oklahoma, appellant pawned the suit of clothes to a witness named Yaffe. He made no…

2Cited by11 opinions

  1. Anderson v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  2. Howell v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1949
  3. Polk v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1922
  4. Williams v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1923
  5. Smith and Bethuren v. StateCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1932

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