People v. Barnes

Lillian Barnes, plaintiff in error, and Lee Bowers, were found guilty of the larceny of an automobile, the property of Frank White, and she prosecutes this writ of error to review the judgment of the circuit court of Vermilion county sentencing her to the penitentiary.

Bowers did not testify, but in statements made to the arresting officers, and in an affidavit in support of the motion for a new trial filed by plaintiff in error, he admitted stealing the automobile and assumed full responsibility for the theft. The evidence in the record consists of the testimony of the owner of the…