Sykes v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; David P. Dyer, Judge. Charles Sykes was convicted of burglary, and brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
The writ in this case challenges the trial and conviction of Charles Sykes for breaking into a post office building at Kirksville, in the state of Missouri, on August 23, 1911, and feloniously taking therefrom four mail bags. The question' which the record in this case has persuaded us to consider is the existence of any substantial evidence to sustain this conviction. The evidence in the record discloses these facts:
Sykes was a resident and citizen of Knox county, in the state of Missouri and had lived in the vicinity of Hurdland, a few miles from Kirksville, for about…
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