State v. Prunty
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Audrain Circuit Court. — Eon. Ernest 8. Gantt, Judge. (1) There being no circumstances in any way connecting the defendant with the burglary, not even the circumstance of recent exclusive possession of any of the property alleged to have been stolen, the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence in the case.
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Appeal from Audrain Circuit Court. — Eon. Ernest 8. Gantt, Judge. (1) There being no circumstances in any way connecting the defendant with the burglary, not even the circumstance of recent exclusive possession of any of the property alleged to have been stolen, the verdict is contrary to the law and the evidence in the case. State v. Castor, 93 Mo. 250; State v. Warford, 106 Mo. 62; State v. Scot!, 109 Mo. 230; State v. Drew, 179 Mo. 321; State v. Hammons, 226 Mo. 611; State v. Belcher, 136 Mo. 137. (2) Evidence as to other crimes or larceny must be such as to prove the specific crime…
1Opinion of the Court
WHITE, C.
The appellant and one Harry Funk were tried on a joint information and convicted of burglary with explosives, and of larcenv. The defendants filed separate motions for new trials and prosecute separate appeals from that conviction, the companion case against Harry Funk being No. 20963.
The safe of the Farber Bank, located at Farber, Missouri, was blown open by explosives, and the bank robbed on the night of the thirteenth, or early in the *366morning of the fourteenth, of November, 1917. Farber is a town of 450 inhabitants in Audrain County, on the Chicago & Alton Railroad, about twenty…
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