Massey v. United States

Roy Massey (defendant) frequented a bar with an upstairs apartment building, whose storeroom held clothes stored for a tailor; a neighbor saw someone matching Massey's description force the bar's door open late one night, and when police responded to the neighbor's report, they saw an intruder fleeing the storeroom and soon found Massey, only partially clothed, upstairs, with the rest of his clothes later discovered in the storeroom. Massey claimed upstairs residents let him into the building, but the residents and the bar's owner all firmly denied giving him permission to be there. The jury convicted Massey of burglary, and he appealed, arguing the government failed to prove he entered with intent to steal.