The People v. Fritz

This writ of error is prosecuted to review a judgment of the circuit court of Cass county finding plaintiff in error guilty of burglary and larceny and sentencing him to the reformatory.

The conviction rests upon the unsupported testimony of Harry Briggs, who has served one term in the reformatory for burglary and larceny and who confesses his participation in this crime. On the night of November 8, 1924, he broke into Dorr’s hardware store, at Chandlerville, and took therefrom a large number of articles of hardware. He testified that he was accompanied by Howard Fritz, plaintiff in error, and…