Lewis v. State

Per Curiam. The appellant (Waverly Lewis) contends that the evidence was insufficient to convict him either of breaking the house of another in the daytime or of larceny. Sometime during the day of May 17, 1960, the house of ⁴⁷⁵ Everett W. Mitchell and his wife in Charles County was broken into and ransacked, and a number of United States Savings bonds (registered in the names of the Mitchells) and other articles, including a man’s wallet, were taken therefrom. In the afternoon of the same day Waverly Lewis and a recent acquaintance (known only as “Freddy” to the appellant) were arrested by District of Columbia police in a Washington restaurant.

In a routine search of the appellant, the bonds were found wedged between his belt and the small of his back and the wallet (containing an identification card of Everett W. Mitchell) was also found on his person. At first the appellant was reluctant to disclose where he had gotten the stolen property, but he explained later to one of the officers that he was merely holding the bonds and wallet for another person and that he did not know the man that gave them to him except by a nickname which he could not recall. He further explained that the property had been “handed to him” by one of two unidentified persons while he was sitting in an