State v. Taylor

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Fromme, J.:

The defendant, James Arthur Taylor, was convicted by a jury of burglary in the second degree and has appealed from the judgment of conviction and sentence.

The evidence will be summarized.

A deputy sheriff while patroling a rural area in Johnson county in the early morning discovered a burglary in progress at a county schoolhouse. In the beam of his spotlight the patrolman saw two men run from the school building. They ran toward open county in a northwesterly direction. One man was dressed in light colored clothing and the other in dark…