People v. Bowlin

Defendant William Bowlin appeals from a conviction in a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Hamilton County for burglary in violation of Ill. Rev. Stat. 1969, ch. 38, sec. 19 — 1, for which he was sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of three to ten years.

Patricia Moore, the complaining witness and sister-in-law of defendant, testified that she lives in Dahlgren, Illinois, and that on or about July 22, 1969 she was in St. Louis staying with her husband who was in Barnes Hospital. When she returned home on July 23, she discovered that the window of her back door was broken out and that her…