Dorsey v. State

The defendants-appellants were tried in the Criminal Court of Baltimore before the court, sitting without a jury, on an indictment containing four counts, the first of which charged them with burglary. They were found guilty of that offense only and sentenced to imprisonment. They appeal, claiming that the evidence of breaking was insufficient to establish one necessary element of the crime of burglary, and that the evidence as a whole was insufficient to sustain the conviction of either of them.

There was evidence to the effect that a television set was stolen from the residence of one Pryor…