Rogers v. State

The defendant, Robert Lowell Rogers, was charged by information filed in the district court of Tulsa county with the crime of burglary in the second degree, it being charged that on August 19, 1945, he did break and enter the Seidenbach’s retail department store in Tulsa and steal therefrom $4,443.30 in money, $2,995.13 in checks and $11,643.07 in jewelry. The trial before a jury resulted in a verdict of guilty and judgment was pronounced pursuant to the verdict of the jury sentencing 'the defendant to serve the maximum term of seven years in the State Penitentiary.

The chief contention…