The People v. Brown

Plaintiffs in error, Fred Brown and William Brown, were convicted in the circuit court of Gallatin county on an indictment of two counts charging burglary and larceny. The court sentenced them to confinement in the State Reformatory at Pontiac for an indefinite term of from one to twenty years or until discharged according to law.

The testimony for the People is in substance as follows: On the night of April 1, 1925, a chicken house on the farm of Owen Rile)', in Gallatin county, was broken into and about five chickens belonging to Riley were stolen therefrom. The door to the chicken house had…