Hollis v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

The appellant was convicted of burglary and his penalty fixed at four years in the penitentiary.

The evidence without contradiction shows that on the early morning of June 6, 1912, J. G. Franklin, who occupied a room in a house on the corner of Colorado and West 6th streets in the City of Austin, where he slept and kept his clothing, put down and fastened the shutters to all of the windows of the room and closed and locked the door, taking the key with him, and that later in the evening in the daytime of the same day he returned to his room and upon going therein found that…