Patterson v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Stanley, Commissioner

Reversing.

The appeal is from a judgment of conviction of storehouse breaking, carrying a sentence of one year in prison. The appellant and another young man, Almon Buckley, living in the village of Island, McLean county, came in from a dance about midnight of May 21, 1932, and, according to Buckley, the appellant broke a window in the general store of H. E. Nall, entered it, and brought out a lot of cheese, crackers, bologna sausage, coca cola, and two bags of flour. They exchanged the flour with bootleggers for beer and whisky and then went into…