State v. Anderson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Wright District Court. — Hon. H. M. Weight, J udge. The defendant was indicted for breaking and entering a railroad car in the possession, control/ and custody of the Chicago Great Western Railroad Company, in which said car, goods, merchandise, and other valuable things were kept for use and deposit, etc. On a trial to a jury he was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment in the state reformatory. From this sentence, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, C. J.
The statute provides a punishment for breaking and entering “any office, shop, store, warehouse, railroad ear, boat or vessel, or any building in which any goods, merchandise, or valuable things are kept for use, sale or deposit.” Code section 4791. The evidence showed that defendant broke' and entered a frame structure which had at one time been the box or body of a freight car, but at the time was without wheels or trucks under it, resting on some timbers lying on the ground within the railroad right of way. At this time it was occupied by section hands as a lodging place. Defendant…
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