State v. Long

The appellant was charged by information in the Circuit Court of Grundy County with having, in the nighttime, stolen domestic fowls (chickens), the property of one Charles Helmandollar. Upon a trial to a jury he was convicted and his punishment assessed at. imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of five years. From this judgment he appeals.

Helmandollar lived near the village of Edinburg, in Grundy County. On the morning of August 2, 1927, just before daylight, he went to his poultry house and upon an examination of the same he found many of liis chickens missing. It had rained during the…