People v. Baker

The complainant, Thompson, and the defendant Baker, at the time of the commission of the offense charged upon the defendant, were farmers in the town of Cambria, Niagara county, occupying adjoining premises, and their houses being about 150 rods apart. The complainant’s and the defendant’s orchards upon their respective farms were separated by a line fence. In the fore part of the month of November, 1896, Thompson’s barn was entered in the night, his granary broken open, and about 180 bushels of oats taken therefrom, of the value of from twenty to twenty-one cents per bushel. The principal…