Roberts v. State

Dan Roberts prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him for the crime of burglary and of grand larceny.

The first assignment of error is that the evidence is not legally sufficient to warrant the verdict.

The record shows that on Friday night, December 16, 1927, the mercantile establishment of the Dover Mercantile Company, at Hatfield, Polk County, Arkansas, was broken into and merchandise of the invoice price of something over $600 was taken from it. Mark Dover was the manager of the store, and the burglary was reported to him about four o’clock in the morning. Dover…