The People v. Penn

James Penn was indicted for burglary and larceny in the circuit court of Peoria county. A jury found him guilty of larceny and he was sentenced to the penitentiary. By this writ of error he seeks a reversal of the judgment.

Shortly before one o’clock in the morning of May 11, 1929, a grocery store owned by the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company located at 1803 North University street, in the city of Peoria, was entered and a box of candy, a package of yeast foam, about forty cartons of cigarettes and fifteen bags of sugar, twelve containing one hundred pounds each and three containing…