State v. Gillespie

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Doster, C. J. :

This is an appeal from a judgment of conviction of the offenses of burglary and larceny concurrently committed. The store of one C. J. Gram, in Halstead, Harvey county, was broken into in the night-time and some articles of fruit and confectionery *470stolen. Suspicion of the crime fell upon the appellant, Taylor Gillespie, a boy aged about seventeen, who with two sisters resided on the outskirts of the town. A few mornings after the commission of the burglary, Gram, the store proprietor, and one Philbrick, a constable, called at the…