State v. Blake

I. The record before us discloses no marked conflict in the evidence. The more important question presented, and the principal one argued, is whether the evidence in the record is legally sufficient to sustain the verdict of guilty. It appears that, on the night of September 27, 1927, 20 sacks of sugar were stolen from the storehouse of Beck Company at Remsen, Iowa, a town 10 miles distant from the city of LeMars, and in an easterly direction therefrom. Blake was a resident of LeMars. He was engaged as a traveling salesman for the Hawley Company. In the forenoon of September 28th the…