Thames v. State

The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted of the crime of burglary and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. The indictment appears to be based on Code Section 2036. This statute denounces the crime of breaking and entering, in the day or night, the dwelling house of another, in which there shall be, at the time, some human being, with intent to commit some crime therein. The crime appellant intended to commit, as laid in the indictment was “to. unlawfully and feloniously make an assault on Mrs. Lloyd Gatewood, a female over the age of twelve years, then and there being, and her,…