SYKES v. STATE

No. 38743.

396 S.W.2d 887 (1965)

Leroy SYKES, Appellant, v. The STATE of Texas, Appellee.

Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas.

December 8, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Juarez, Donald J. Hobson, Austin, for appellant.

Thomas D. Blackwell, Dist. Atty., Robert J. Kuhn, Asst. Dist. Atty. and Leon B. Douglas, State's Atty., Austin, for the State.


McDONALD, Presiding Judge.

The offense is burglary; the punishment, five years in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows that when R. L. Haines, manager of Derrick Lumber Company, opened that establishment on the morning of December 11, 1964, he discovered that a number of tools and gloves were missing from the hardware department. He testified that upon further investigation he discovered that a window screen had been removed and "the window had been sprung...

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