The People v. Johnson

Clell May was convicted of burglary in the circuit court of DeWitt county and has sued out a writ of error. He was indicted jointly with Ivan Scroggins and Walter Johnson but was tried alone, Scroggins being at the time in the United States army and Johnson serving a term of imprisonment in the State Reformatory at Pontiac for “robbery with a gun,” under the sentence of the Macon county circuit court.

The evidence shows, beyond a reasonable doubt, that during the night of September 30, 1927, the building of John Henneberry, at Wapella, in DeWitt county, used as a filling station, was…