People v. Johnson

Plaintiff in error, Benjamin M. Johnson, who was convicted in the circuit court of Will county of burglary and larceny and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary, prosecutes this writ of error to review the judgment.

Thomas Tong, the complaining witness, testified that some person or persons entered his chicken house during the night of March 4, 1924, and stole therefrom a large number of white Wyandotte chickens; that he did not know the exact number stolen but estimated the loss to be about eighty; that a band was placed around the leg of each chicken raised during the season of 1923…