White v. People

Clarence White, the plaintiff in error, and Frank Ryan, were jointly indicted by the grand jury of the criminal court of Cook county, at the November term, 1898, for an attempt to commit burglary. White was convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary, and has sued out this writ of error, and assigns several errors on the record for a reversal of the judgment.

Section 36 of the Criminal Code (Rev. Stat. p. 357,) defines burglary as follows: “Whoever in the night time willfully and maliciously and forcibly breaks and enters, or willfully and maliciously, without force, (the doors or windows…