Wyss v. State

George Rose Smith, Justice.

Arthur Wyss was charged with the burglary of a church at Knob, in Clay county, with the theft of a piano and other church property, and with the theft on the same day of an axe and other tools kept at Luttrell’s Sawmill. The jury returned a verdict of guilty as to the third charge, a misdemeanor, and imposed a six-month jail sentence. A mistrial was declared as to the other two charges, the jurors being unable to agree. On this appeal from the conviction the appellant’s principal arguments, among seven points for reversal, relate to the sufficiency of the State’s…