McAfee v. State

Blandford, Justice.

McAfee was indicted, tried and found guilty of the offence of burglary, and the extreme penalty of the law was put upon him by the court below; that is, he was sentenced to twenty years’ confinement in the State *439penitentiary. This was a very grave crime, and unless the defendant had all of his legal rights accorded to him, a new trial should be granted.

The main error complained of is that the court below allowed the jailer to testify to certain letters which were written by McAfee to his father, and the answers of the father to McAfee; and also the contents of a letter…