Wells v. State

Deen, Judge.

The defendant and another were jointly charged with burglary under an indictment alleging that they entered the dwelling house of one Rogers with intent to commit a theft and carried away certain described property of Rogers with the intention of depriving said owner of his property. Upon the trial of the case he contended that he had purchased some of the property from an unidentified person some days previously. The State’s evidence was sufficient to establish a breaking and entry shortly before the defendants were apprehended nearby with the property, and ownership in Rogers.…