State v. Medley

Defendants were jointly charged, tried and convicted of possession of burglar’s tools under Sec. 4449 R. S. 1939 and the punishment of each was fixed at five years imprisonment in the penitentiary. A single record has been brought up for review on writ of error.

An information was duly filed in the Circuit Court of Cole County on February 3, 1949, wherein it was charged that defendants Fithen and Medley and one Robert Charles Hand “at the County of Cole, State of Missouri, on the 5th day of October, 1948, did wilfully, un lawfully and feloniously have in their custody and concealed about their…