People v. Freeland

On the morning of May 26, 1916, between three and four o’clock, the post-office at Edinburg, Christian county, was burglarized. The safe was blown open with some explosive, the wood partitions or pigeon holes inside split and torn up and a number of postage stamps and some money stolen. In the afternoon of the same day plaintiff in error was arrested in Edinburg on suspicion of having committed the crime. At the August term, 1917, of the Christian county circuit court he was indicted for burglary and larceny. In their brief counsel for the State explain that the delay in returning the…