State v. Jones

Knutson, Chief Justice.

Defendant was convicted of burglary and assault and appeals from an order denying his alternative motion for acquittal or a new trial.

On January 7, 1965, sometime after midnight, one William Cozart and an accomplice entered the Winona Senior High School for the purpose of committing a burglary. They procured a portable acetylene torch from the school welding shop and took it to the superintendent’s office, where they began cutting through a vault door on a walk-in safe. They heard a noise out in the hall and Cozart’s accomplice looked out through the door and saw…