State v. Parker

The defendant Ilarry Parker was charged by indictment in the Circuit Court of Ralls County with burglary and larceny. It was alleged that on the night of June 30, 1927, in the County of Ralls he broke into the building of the Kroger Grocery & Baking Company, a corporation, with felonious and burglarious intent, and then and there did steal, take and carry away 2500 pounds of cane sugar of the value of $175.

The defendant, June 29, 1927, informed a colored man named Walter White, who operated a little grocery store in Hannibal, that he, Parker, wanted some sugar; the amount was not stated, but…