State v. Patterson

Litz, Judge:

The defendant, Clifford Patterson, was tried, convicted and sentenced to a term of two years in the state penitentiary, upon an indictment charging him and Wayford Rathbun, jointly, with breaking and entering, in the nighttime, a store building belonging to Joe Dunham, with intent to steal.

According to the evidence, the defendant, on the night of December 26, 1929, in company witb Rathbun, Paul Black, Carl Smith and Earnest Barnes, after visiting a number of places in or near the town of Ravenswood started toward his home in North Ravenswood. On the way, they met Hubert Cunningham…