State v. Jennings

In an information filed in the Circuit Court of Boone County by the prosecuting attorney, defendant was charged with burglary and larceny. The verdict of the jury found defendant guilty of burglary, and assessed his punishment at imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years; and further found him guilty of grand larceny, and assessed his punishment therefor at imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years. From the judgment entered on the verdict defendant appealed.

The evidence for the State warrants the finding that, on February 5, 1929, G.A. Laxton and his son, Clarence, a…