State v. . Tytus
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT, tried before Connor, Judge, at'Fall Term, 1887, of Anson Superior Court. It is charged that the defendant, ‘on the tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, with force and arms, at and in the county aforesaid, unlawfully and wilfully did enter the gin and mill house of one B. V. Henry, there situate, and in which said house there was at that time cotton, meal and other personal property, in the night-time, and with…
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INDICTMENT, tried before Connor, Judge, at'Fall Term, 1887, of Anson Superior Court. It is charged that the defendant, ‘on the tenth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven, with force and arms, at and in the county aforesaid, unlawfully and wilfully did enter the gin and mill house of one B. V. Henry, there situate, and in which said house there was at that time cotton, meal and other personal property, in the night-time, and with intent to-commit the crime of larceny, and that the said Moses Tytus was found by night in said house with intent to…
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.,
(after stating the case). The only question presented by the record for our consideration arises upon the motion in arrest of judgment.
Section 996 of The Code enacts, among other things, that if any person “ shall break and enter a store-house * * * or other building where any merchandise, chattel, money, valuable security, or other personal property shall-be, * * * with intent to commit a felony or other infamous crime therein, every such person shall be guilty,” &c.
Section 997, among other things, enacts, if any person '“shall be found by night in any such building (dwelling or…
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