Case ID: sw2d_26/html/0276-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "MARTIN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JACKSON v. STATE.
    No. 13164.
    Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.
    March 19, 1930.
    Earl Adams, Jr., of Houston, for appellant.
    O’Brien Stevens, Cr. Dist. Atty., and E. T. Branch, Asst. Cr. Dist. Atty., both of Houston, and A. A. Dawson, State’s Atty,, of Austin, for the State.
   MARTIN, J.

Offense, burglary; penalty, two years in the penitentiary.

A house occupied by the Graham Stove Company in the city of Houston was burglarized and a steel safe taken therefrom. A car was observed that night around 10 or 11 o’clock going down the street with a steel safe on the' running .board held by a man on the outside. Witness holloed, and the safe fell off. The witness observed particularly the description of the car. The safe proved to be from the burglarized premises. Appellant was arrested a short time thereafter, and the car he was in at the time was identified as the one that was hauling the burglarized safe. The running board bore evidence of having hauled an object like a safe. He had in the car at the time, among other things, a sledge hammer, some chisels, and a bottle of whisky. He was arrested with the accomplice, Grounds, who testified on the trial against him. The evidence was, in our opinion, sufficient to corroborate the accomplice. Grice v. State, 107 Tex. Cr. R. 646, 298 S. W. 597; Bridges v. State (Tex. Cr. App.) 10 S.W.(2d) 723; Howard v. State, 111 Tex. Cr. R. 205, 13 S.W.(2d) 80, 85.

The judgment is affirmed.

PER CURIAM.

The foregoing opinion of the Commission of Appeals has been examined by the judges of the Court of Criminal Appeals and approved by the court.