State v. Smith

BRUNOT, Justice.

The defendant was tried upon four indictments, in each of which he is charged with the crime of “wilfully, feloniously and unlawfully breaking and entering a dwelling house, in the day time, with intent to steal.”

The indictments were consolidated and tried together. In three of them the crime is charged to have been committed on dates prior to October 16, 1932, and the fourth charges that the crime was committed on that date. The trial resulted in the conviction of the defendant, for the crime charged to have been committed on October 16, 1932, and in his acquittal of the…