Hartfield and Richardson v. State

BERRY, Judge.

The appellants were convicted of theft of a watch under the value of §50.00 and their punishment assessed at a fine of §100.00 and six months in jail.

The record discloses that one Alford Mattke and wife left home on the afternoon of May 29, 1925, a short time before sundown and went to the home of Mr. Doege, Mattke’s father-in-law, who lived .about a mile away, and that when they returned home that night they found that someone had entered the house, the doors of which had been left open, and had taken a watch and some meat and apples. The only connection this record shows that…