People v. Gordon

Defendant was convicted of burglary in the alleged nocturnal breaking and entering of the house of one Charles L. Stevens, in Detroit, and *717stealing a quantity of silver and other small articles therefrom. The only evidence connecting defendant with the offense was his arrest with a satchel containing the articles. The only evidence of the burglary was that the house, which was temporarily unoccupied except by a brother of the owner sleeping in it, was entered through a window in the front; that a lamp which belonged in the kitchen was found unlighted in the front hall; and that a clock had…