People v. Decker

Plaintiffs in error, Oscar Decker, Charlie Hall and Everett Croy, were convicted in the circuit court of Cumberland county of burglary and larceny, and the two first named were sentenced to indefinite terms in the penitentiary and the other defendant, Croy, was sentenced to serve an indefinite term in the State reformatory. They have prosecuted this writ of error to review the record.

The evidence for the People is, in substance, the following: Jane Mayberry, wife of Jesse Mayberry, on April 16, 1922, was the owner of about seventy-five or one hundred chickens, which at seven o’clock on that…