State Wisconsin v. George E. Johnson

The appellant, hereinafter called the defendant, was charged with five counts of burglary under sec. 943.10(1)(a) and three
counts of larceny under sec. 943.20 of the Criminal Code. He pleaded not guilty and waived a jury; neither he nor any witnesses
on his behalf testified at the trial. The court on October 21, 1958, found the defendant guilty on the two counts of burglary
and two counts of larceny involving the Glen Struck service station and the Mitchell's Standard station, not guilty on the
other counts and sentenced him as a repeater to serve concurrently two indeterminate terms of not more than ten years in the
state prison on the burglary counts and two terms of six months in the Vilas county jail on the larceny counts. The information
charged a conviction and sentence to the Federal Reformatory in Oklahoma for a felony in 1943 and conviction and sentence
to the State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois, for armed robbery in 1952. The defendant admitted the convictions and serving
some six years in actual confinement on the 1952 conviction. Upon his release from the penitentiary at Joliet in April, 1958, the defendant came to Vilas county and stayed at a cottage
on Big Portage Lake owned by Milton Remburg of Chicago. On August 31, Glen Struck's service station in the town of Conover
was burglarized and a screw driver, a four-way tire wrench, a tire iron, two tires and $7 in cash were taken. On September
1 or 2, Mitchell's Standard station in the town of Land O'Lakes was burglarized and $44.90 in cash and a screw driver were
stolen. On August 23 or 24, the Richmond filling station at Eagle River was burglarized. On August 26, the Harry Seifert Standard
Oil station at Conover was broken into and windshield wipers and four batteries were taken. On August 23, the L & K Sinclair
station at Eagle River was burglarized and $50 was taken, and again on August 25 when $80 was taken.