Jerry Crowe v. State

A jury found appellant guilty under both counts of a two-count indictment, one charging him with burglary in the second degree, the other with grand larceny. The court rendered judgment against him accordingly and sentenced him to four years imprisonment in the penitentiary, the punishment being fixed by the court. No contention is here made, and we see no reasonable basis for any, that the evidence was not sufficient upon which to find defendant guilty of both counts. The owner of an uninhabited dwelling house and the contents thereof testified as to the breaking and entry and the removal therefrom of a color television set, which he valued at $500.00. The circumstances shown by the owner's testimony was sufficient to establish the corpus delicti of each offense. Another witness for the State testified that he saw defendant and his coindictee force an entry into the dwelling and remove therefrom the television set.