Stapleton v. Commonwealth

Sims, P.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:

*485All of the questions raised by the assignments of error which are not obviously untenable will be disposed of in their order as stated below.

1. Is the indictment (which is for compound larceny, to-wit, charging burglary and larceny, and which contains only one count, in which both the burglary and larceny are charged) sufficient to support the conviction of larceny which was obtained by the Commonwealth in the instant case?

The question must be answered in the affirmative.

It has been long settled and…