Pearre v. State

Found guilty in a non-jury trial of breaking into a pharmacy with intent to commit a felony, i.e., larceny, therein, the ap pellant first contends that the State failed to prove a felonious intent and that therefore the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction.

The State’s evidence showed that a motorist, O’Neill, saw two men who “looked suspicious” in front of the closed pharmacy at about 10:30 P.M. and a little later heard the shattering of glass. Leaving his car, he approached the pharmacy and observed a man “apparently talking into the store” through a hole in the glass front…