Looney v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted of burglary in the second degree, and sentenced to imprisonment in the state penitentiary for a term of five years. Motion for a new trial was filed, considered, and overruled, exceptions saved, and the case appealed to this court.

The state introduced Mrs. Ophelia Knapp to show that while she and her family were away from home her house and outbuildings were broken into, and honey, fruit juice, and several jars of fruit taken. ,She did not know who took it. The day previous to the entering of her home the…