The People v. Burke

Plaintiffs in error, Herbert Burke, John Flynn and Thomas Fahey, were indicted in the criminal court of Cook county for the crime of burglary and larceny. Upon trial before the court, without a jury, they were found guilty of grand larceny and sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary.

The evidence shows a meat market at the corner of Sixty-ninth street and Normal avenue in the city of Chicago was burglarized on the night of November 23, 1940, and meats and hams of the value of $53 taken and carried away. About two o’clock in the morning a witness, living across the street, saw three men in…