State v. Stokes Church

Tbe storehouse was entered and tbe larceny was committed on 2 June, 1926, at nigbt, and two days later tbe chief of police in Granite Falls saw tbe defendant and Charlie Craven walking down a railroad track in Burke County. Each of them carried a suitcase containing a part of tbe stolen property. When tbe officer called to them to stop Craven ran, jumped into tbe river, and escaped; tbe defendant was arrested and imprisoned, and was afterwards tried and convicted.

Upon tbe trial tbe defendant attempted to set up an alibi, and bis testimony was corroborated by that of other witnesses. He now…