State v. Underwood

The defendant, Joe Underwood, was indicted and charged with the crime of breaking and entering the warehouse of the Younkerman Seed Company in Council Bluffs, Iowa, during the night of November 11, 1955. He, together with Robert Reid, Jerry Porter and two other lads, had been engaged in a beer drinking party which was broken up by police officers around midnight, and the two lads had gone home. Underwood, Reid and Porter had continued to drive about the city. After the break-in was discovered, police observed them in that locality and gave chase. Porter and -the defendant got away. Reid was…