Ward v. State

The defendant, Kenneth Ward, was jointly charged with one William Lee Dover with the crime of burglary in the second degree, allegedly committed on January 24, 1950, by breaking into and entering a building known as the Greenleaf Market, located in the city of Norman and owned by one Joe W. Birchum. A severance was granted; Ward was tried, convicted, and sen teneed to serve three years imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, and has appealed.

The proof of the state showed that the door to the grocery was opened and the store entered on the night of January 24, 1950. Approximately $191 in cash…