Abele v. State

Appellant was indicted and tried for burglary, convicted and sentenced to one year in the penitentiary, and appeals from said judgment.

The burglary was committed by breaking open I. C. car No. 24490, the property of the Illinois Central Railroad Company in service on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad, and taking from said car cigarettes to the value of one thousand and forty dollars.

R. T. Westbrook, a witness, upon whose testimony the conviction is predicated, was an accomplice, who had previously pleaded g-pilty to the burglary and been sentenced to serve a term in the penitentiary…