Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — FOUND GUILTY BY THE JURY [ARTICLE]

FOUND GUILTY BY THE JURY

NEWTON COUNTY CHICKEN THIEF GOES TO PRISON AT JEFFERSONVILLE. The case of the State of Indiana vs Bert Baker, venued here from Newton county, was tried in the circuit court here Wednesday by a jury and resulted in a verdict of guilty. . Baker was indicted by the grand jury of Newton county at the March, 1917, term of court on the charge of stealing five chickens from Isaac N. Best, of Roselawn. The chickens were valued at five dollars. In their verdict the petit jury found Baker guilty as charged in the indictment and that he was 21 years of age. Sentence was passed by Judge C. W. Hanley, which was that the young man be confined in the state prison at Jeffersonville for a period of from one to eight years; that he be disfranchised for a period of two years and- fined in the amount of ten dollars. ; ■