State v. Aliff

Riley., President:

The defendant, Louis Aliff, was indicted and convicted in the criminal court of Raleigh County for burglary and two previous convictions for felonies. The case is here on review of a judgment of the circuit court denying a writ of error.

At the trial defendant relied upon two grounds of defense: (1) the establishment of an alibi, and (2) the state’s failure to identify the property charged to have been stolen.

Billie O’Dell, whose house in Lester was alleged to have been burglarized between the hours of twelve and two-thirty on the night of February 6-7th, testified that one…