State v. Braica

This is an indictment for burglary. After conviction by a jury in the superior court defendants’ motion for a new trial was denied. The case is before us on their exceptions to that decision and to certain rulings during the trial.

It appears in evidence that on July 2, 1948 Francesco Iannarelli and his wife occupied the lower tenement of a two-family house at 764 River avenue in the city of Providence. The front door of that tenement opened onto a porch with a few wooden steps to the sidewalk of the street. A rear room of the tenement had a window which was some six feet from the ground.…