Hargett v. State

The indictment was in six counts, charging the defendants with burglary and laying the possession of the storehouse in various parties. By given charges, counts 1, 2, 3, and 6 were eliminated, leaving counts 4 and 5. The fourth count laid the ownership of the storehouse alleged to have been burglarized in John W. Johnson, receiver of Cherokee Cash Store, a partnership composed of John F. Harris and W. C. Holesapple, and the fifth count in John W. Johnson as receiver, etc.

At the conclusion of the court’s oral charge defendants reserved exception to the following:

“There is not any controversy…