State v. Smith

The charge in 3478 that the defendant broke and entered “a certain building occupied by one Chatham County Board of Education, a Government corporation,” et cetera, is fatally defective in that it fails to identify the premises with sufficient certainty to enable the defendant to prepare his defense and offer him protection from another prosecution for the same incident. It appears from the brief that he actually entered the Henry Siler School in Siler City but under the general description of ownership in the bill, it could have as well been any other school building or other property owned…