State v. Sewell

The defendant was convicted of burglary in the second degree. The court denied defendant’s motion in arrest of judgment and for a new trial and entered judgment and sentence on the verdict. The defendant appeals.

Appellant contends that the state failed to prove the crime charged, and that the court erred in denying his motion in arrest of judgment.

Three witnesses were called by the state. The manager of the American Legion Club in Port Townsend testified that, at approximately seven o’clock a. m., July 27, 1955, he discovered that the club premises had been entered through a window on the…