State v. Powell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, J.:

William Powell was convicted of burglary in the second degree, and the sentence of the court was five years’ imprisonment in the state penitentiary. The sufficiency of the information was challenged for failing definitely to set forth the larceny which the burglar intended to commit. In the first count of the information it charged in appropriate terms that the defendant broke and entered a chicken-house “with intent to steal and commit a felony therein,” adding that at the time there was valuable property deposited and kept in the…