Court Opinion

ID: 3950208
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-06 10:12:24.484812+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:26:36.069490
License: Public Domain

Appellant was convicted of burglary, his punishment being assessed at two years confinement in the penitentiary.
The indictment charges the ordinary burglary by force, etc., did break and enter a house with intent to commit theft.
We are of opinion the evidence does not support the conviction. Nobody put the defendant in the house, and sixty yards from the house was the nearest point at which appellant was seen by witnesses. A boy who was working close by the house and ought to have known if appellant entered the house, and could have seen it if it occurred, as it was in broad daylight, did not see him go to the house. While there are some suspicious circumstances, still the evidence falls short of the rule required in cases of circumstantial evidence.
The judgment is reversed and the cause is remanded.
Reversed and remanded.
Prendergast, Judge, not sitting. *Page 583