State v. Baldwin

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Defendant Raymond Baldwin, convicted by a jury of burglary and1 stealing and sentenced to the penitentiary, has appealed, raising only one point: error in the admission of certain testimony relating to a rifle, one of the articles allegedly stolen.

A brief résumé of the state’s evidence follows :

Joe Landreth, manager of a lumberyard at Purdy, testified that he owned a .22 calibre Western Field rifle and a television set, both of which were behind the counter in the lumber company office building on the night of September 30, 1963 when the office was closed at the end of…