Thompson v. State

— Plaintiff in error took writ of error-to a judgment of conviction and sentence to imprisonment in the State penitentiary, upon an information charging that the accused did “unlawfully and feloniously break and enter” a “store building * * * with intent to commit a felony therein, to-wit Grand Larceny.”

“Where it is shown that a building has been entered and property, stolen, therefrom, and soon thereafter the property is found in the possession of the person charged with entering the building with intent to steal, such possession unexplained may warrant the jury to infer guilt of the crime…