State v. Rivers
Supreme Court of Iowa
' Appeal from Mahaska District Oowrb. The defendants were convicted of the crime of breaking and entering a store building in the night time with intent to commit a larceny, and they appeal from the judgment pronounced against them. Phillips db Greer, for defendants. A. J. Baker, Attorney-general, for the State.
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
i. verptot: evfiencato support. I. The evidence given on the trial shows that the building described in the indictment was broken and entered by some person on the night of the fifteenth of'September, 1884. It also tends to show that a portion of the goods kept in the building, (which was occupied as a general store,) was stolen at the same time. The business conducted in the building was carried on by a partnership consisting of three partners, but the real estate was owned by two of the partners. The evidence relied on by the state to connect the defendants with the crime is circumstantial.…
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