State v. Piland

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fontron, J.:

The defendant, Donald J. Piland, was convicted of two counts of burglary and one count of theft of property of a value of fifty dollars ($50) or more. He was sentenced to three concurrent terms of not less than three (3) nor more than ten (10) years, and he has appealed.

Most of the facts are undisputed. On March 25, 1974, the Allison Junior High School building of Wichita was entered. A vending machine which was located in a closet in the building and which contained money, candy, cookies and gum was pried open and many of its contents were…