Beathard v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge.

Judge. — The offense is burglary of private residence; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for five years.

C. F. Hawkins lived with his family near the town of Over-ton. On September 17, 1931, he and his family left their residence at 7 p. m. Upon his return home at 8 o’clock in the morning of September 19, 1931, Mr. Hawkins discovered that someone had broken a window and entered his house. Approximately one hundred thirty dollars worth of wearing apparel had been taken. Some of the property had been in a trunk. This trunk had been carried from the house and…