State v. Hohensee

FLANIGAN, Judge.

The break-in at the Brandhorst building was not of the run-of-the-mill variety. Not that George Bressie and Jimmy Yarberry, who effected the illegal entry, were strangers to crime. Indeed Bressie had ten felony convictions, most of them for burglary, and admittedly had committed six other burglaries for which he had not been convicted. Yarberry, too, had a substantial criminal record. At the time of the Brand-horst break-in both of them were “out on bond” awaiting trial for yet another burglary. The peculiar thing was that the Springfield Police Department was paying the two…