Burch v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

On April 7, 1931, the grand jury of Fayette county returned an indictment against Tom Alford and appellant, C. H. Burch, charging them with the crime of attempting to open a safe with explosives. On the same day the grand jury returned an indictment against them charging them with the crime of having burglar’s tools in their possession. They were put on trial under the first indictment and convicted. From the judgment sentencing them to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of twenty years they appealed, and that judgment was affirmed in an…