Pinkerton v. State

PRENDERGAST, Judge.

From a conviction for burglary with the lowest penalty prescribed by law fixed, appellant prosecutes this appeal.

Mr. A. A. Kerr was a merchant in the small country town of Ex Bay in said county and handled general merchandise, including most everything used in a country store. It included a stock of pocket-knives and canned oysters and salmon. On Saturday night, April 27, 1912, his store was burglarized and two boxes of pocket-knives,—one full, the other not full—and some salmon or oldsters, or both, were stolen therefrom.

On that Saturday night there was a dance some few…