State v. Priesmeyer

— The appeal is from a judgment upon conviction of each of the defendants of burglary and larceny, the sentence being two years for each offense for each defendant.

They were charged with breaking into a building of Louis Knoop at Cole Camp in Benton County, March 12, 1929, and stealing thirty-four chickens of the value of fifty dollars. Upon change of venue the trial was had in Bates County.

Theodore Priesmeyer and Louis Priesmeyer were the sons of Lizzie Priesmeyer, and Alice Priesmeyer was the .wife of Louis. The evidence for the State tends to show that all those members of the Priesmeyer…