State v. Blake

The defendant was charged with unlawfully breaking and entering in the nighttime with intent to steal. He was tried for the offense, found guilty as charged, and sentenced to imprisonment in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, at hard labor, for two years. The appeal is from the verdict and sentence.

There are tfoo bills of exception in the record. One was reserved to the overruling of a motion for a new trial, and the other to the 'overruling of a motion in arrest of judgment.

The motion for a new trial is based upon the insufficiency of the evidence, i. e., that no proof of intent was offered;…