22 Kan. 542 | Kan. | 1879
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The only question demanding our attention in this case is, whether a criminal information is sufficient which charges burglary in a store building, but which does not state or show whether the building is owned or possessed by any person or not. The charge is as follows:
On December 7, 1878, in Osage county, Kansas, the defendant “George Fockler did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, and in the night-time, break and enter a certain store situated on the north end of lot number five, in block number seventeen (17), in Witherell’s addition to the town (now the city) of Osage City, in the county and state aforesaid, in which said store there was, at the time of said breaking and entering, kept and deposited a large amount of goods, wares and merchandise, and other valuable things, with the intent then and there to steal, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the state of Kansas.”
This is all there is of the charge; and from it, who can tell who owned the “ store,” or who owned the “ goods, wares and merchandise, and other valuable things,” deposited there
The judgment of the court below will be reversed, and cause remanded with the order that the defendant be delivered over to the jailer of Osage county, Kansas, there to abide the further orders of the district court of said county.