Stokes v. State

CHRISTIAN, Judge. —

The offense is burglary; the punishment, confinement in the penitentiary for two years.

The proof on the part of the State was to the effect that, on the 26th of October, 1932, someone burglarized the freight depot at Celeste and took therefrom some shoes and pocket knives. Sometime after the burglary appellant offered to sell some pocket knives and shoes to a number of persons. The State made an effort to identify the articles appellant had in his possession by showing that they were of the same kind as the property stolen from the freight house.

Appellant did not testify in…