State v. Stevens

BLAIR, C.

The defendant was informed against jointly with Thomas Howard, the two being charged with burglary with explosives as that offense is defined in section 4526, Revised Statutes 1909. On a trial separate and apart from Howard defendant was convicted • and sentenced to twenty-five years in the penitentiary and has appealed.

The evidence showed that in the early morning of January 11, 1911, a saloon at 2404 East Eighteenth street in Kansas City, Missouri, was entered by burglars (by means of chiseling out a panel of a rear door), an iron safe blown open with nitroglycerin and some money…