Willey v. Hudspeth

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Burch, J.:

When the petitioner, James Willey, in this habeas corpus case was a seventeen-year-old boy, he and another boy were charged with breaking into and entering, in the nighttime, a groceiy store in Pittsburg, Crawford county, Kansas, and with stealing therefrom various articles having an aggregate value of $25.25. The information, in two counts, charged the petitioner with being guilty of burglary in the second degree and of grand larceny. Such information was verified and filed on the 7th day of November, 1940, and on the same day the petitioner…