BARFIELD v. STATE

No. 30633.

323 S.W.2d 455 (1959)

Thomas Baker BARFIELD, Appellant, v. STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

April 22, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Owen Melder, Houston, for appellant.

Dan Walton, Dist. Atty., Thomas D. White, Samuel H. Robertson, Jr., and Frank Briscoe, Asst. Dist. Attys., Houston, and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


MORRISON, Presiding Judge.

The offense is burglary, with two prior convictions for felonies less than capital alleged for enhancement; the punishment, life imprisonment, in compliance with the terms of Article 63, Vernon's Ann.P.C.

The appellant and another man were apprehended inside a beer establishment on the night in question after the same had been closed by the owner. A back window of the place had been broken in, the cigarette machine was damaged, and...

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