Moreno v. People

Plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, or by name, was convicted of the crime of burglary, and sentenced to a term in the State Penitentiary. Motion for new trial was filed and denied.

A brief summary of the facts contained in the transcript of the evidence should prove helpful in the consideration and determination of defendant’s three assertions of error.

Shortly after 11:00 o’clock P.M., on the night of August 30, 1963, one Ponds heard the sound of breaking glass. From his second-story window he observed a person, whom he could not definitely identify, entering the…