Hughes v. State

delivered the opinión of the Court.

The plaintiffs in error were indicted under section 6537 of Shannon’s Code, which is as follows:

“Whoever shall break and enter into the business house, outhouse, or any other house of another, other than a mansion house, with intent to commit a felony, shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than three nor more .than fifteen years.”

*243Upon the conclusion of the introduction of the State’s evidence a motion was made by counsel for the plaintiffs in error to discharge them upon the ground that the State had failed to prove the ownership of the building…