State v. Laverne

The state’s evidence tended to prove the following facts:

The defendant and one Pesarki roomed together in a lodging house, the rear of which was separated from the rear of Simpson Brothers’ store by an alley. One Axman, who occupied an adjoining room, testified that he had spent the evening of December 23 with the defendant and Pesarki; that they had come home with him about eleven o’clock and gone directly to their room; that a few moments later somebody (he was not positive whether one or both of them) left the room and went out, and that he heard footsteps coming back up the stairs about…