People v. Bonney

The Court.

The defendant was convicted of the crime of burglary in the second degree, and has appealed from the judgment entered against him and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

At the trial the only witnesses for the prosecution were Joseph A. Sargent and George F. Seibert. Sargent testified that he owned a cabin in which he lived alone, and that in his absence some one entered it through a window and took and carried- away a few articles of small value; that subsequently defendant admitted to him that he and the witness Seibert entered the cabin and took and carried away the…