State v. Walker

The defendant James Fred Walker was convicted of the crime of burglary not in a dwelling house and appeals.

The facts, in general, are that Miller and Walter Rayborn, brothers, were potato growers in Umatilla County and maintained a potato cellar near Weston, Oregon, where potatoes were stored. The brothers had counted the sacks of potatoes in the cellar on January 28, 1965. On January 30 they counted the sacks and noted that 71 one hundred pound sacks of potatoes were missing. The potatoes were traced to the defendant and he testified he purchased them from a man who called himself Raymond…