Copeland v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Stephens county of burglary in the second degree and his punishment fixed at two years’ imprisonment.

Defendant was charged jointly with Willard Parker and Ed Middleton with burglary of a smokehouse of one Gray. A severance was taken, and defendant was tried alone. There is no question but what the burglary was committed as charged and a quantity of meat stolen at the time. Some two weeks afterwards a part of this meat was found at the house of one Vaughan. Vaughan testified that on the Monday…