Weeks v. State

DICE, Judge.

The conviction is for burglary; the punishment assessed being four years’ confinement in the state penitentiary.

According to the state’s evidence, a building occupied by the Ship Ahoy restaurant, located in the city of Houston, was broken into and entered through a back door on the night of August 30, 1953.

The state’s witness, Grady Love, who was a night watchman at the restaurant, testified that after the place had closed and all outside doors locked and while he was upstairs in the building, he heard a noise which sounded like carpenters doing some work; that he then saw two men…