State v. Bair

Maxwell, Judge:

The defendants, jointly indicted, separately tried, were each convicted and sentenced to two years confinement in the state penitentiary. Separate writs of error were awarded.

The indictment charges the defendants and two others with having entered in the nighttime, without breaking, a dwelling house of C. A. Shott and Dewey White in Boone County with intent to steal the goods and chattels of said owners.

Whether the building alleged to have been burglarized was a dwelling house within the meaning of the statute on burglary presents our first query. The building is located in a…