State v. Law

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fontron, J.:

The defendant, Raymond Eugene Law, was convicted on charges of burglary and grand larceny. He was sentenced under the Habitual Criminal Act and has appealed. We will refer to the parties respectively as state and defendant, or Law.

During the night of April 9, 1967, the office of Dr. Ohman, in Dodge City, was broken into and some three thousand Didrex tablets were stolen. The next morning city police received a call from a young man by the name of Roger Kunze, who implicated himself and four other men, including Mr. Law, in the crime.

After…