State v. Sams

Caplan, Justice:

Thomas Leon Sams, defendant below and appellant, seeks a reversal of a judgment of the Circuit Court of Wood County, wherein he was declared guilty of and sentenced for the crime of breaking and entering. He was indicted for said crime at the January Term, 1973, of the grand jury of the aforesaid court. Upon trial of the charges contained in the indictment the jury found him guilty as charged therein. Thereafter, his motion to set aside the verdict was denied and the defendant prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment charged that Thomas Leon Sams did feloniously break and enter,…