State v. Sisler

Maxwell, Judge:

To a judgment of conviction of burglary and sentence of penitentiary confinement, the defendants, Lloyd and Scott Sisler, were awarded writ of error by this Court.

The prosecution was based on an indictment charging the defendants with breaking and entering in the nighttime a chicken house being an “outhouse adjoining the dwelling house of Blanche Jordan and occupied therewith”, and stealing chickens of the value of $30.00, the property of Howard Jordan.

The Jordan family lives in Preston County, West Virginia, near the West Virginia and Maryland State line. The defendants reside…