People v. Lambath

Defendant was convicted and sentenced for the crimes of breaking and entering a dwelling in the daytime, with intent to commit larceny therein, and of larceny from a dwelling, and prosecutes this appeal from such conviction.

It was claimed by the prosecution that he obtained certain articles of personal property, including a fur coat, from the dwelling in question, later disposing of them at a pawn shop in the city of Detroit.

One of the witnesses, a clerk in the pawn shop, testified that the pawn ticket, exhibit 3, was signed by defendant in his presence and that defendant signed the name “Ed…