People v. Tielke

.Mr. Justice Carter

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the circuit court of Stephenson county on the charge of burglary. After judgment was entered this writ of error was sued out.

From the evidence in the record it appears that on the night of July 8, 1912, a man entered, through a window in the basement, the residence of Thomas Holmes, in the city of Freeport, in said county. Holmes himself was absent, the house being occupied that night by his wife and his two children,—a boy of nine and a girl of six,—all three sleeping in the same room…