Yeargin v. State

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter called defendant, was convicted in the district court of Oklahoma county of the crime of burglary in the second degree, and his punishment fixed by the court at imprisonment for two years in the state reformatory at Granite.

Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict and judgment.

The state was compelled to rely upon circumstantial evidence. .Some one entered the Melrose Apartment House in Oklahoma City, and by opening a small closet door took therefrom a vacuum sweeper; defendant was seen and arrested in the alley at the rear of…