State v. Castor

In March, 1884, the defendant hired himself to one Taylor Webb, as a farm-hand, for one hundred and seventy dollars per year, board, washing, and lodging. The house consisted of two rooms, a sitting-room, in which Webb, wife and child slept, and a kitchen, and in the latter the defendant slept. His trunk, a common, cheap affair, with a lock to match, was kept in the family sitting-room. This trunk was-easily locked and unlocked by the key of the cupboard, which sometimes was in the cupboard-lock and sometimes lying loose about the house, which stood on a public road and near a church. In the…