Easley v. Commonwealth

MONTGOMERY, Judge.

This appeal is from a judgment based on a conviction for burglary with a sentence of five years’ confinement. James Anderson Easley, appellant, assigns as error the rejection of his plea of former jeopardy and improper argument by the prosecuting attorney.

Early in the morning of November 26, 1956, while it was dark, appellant entered, *779the house then occupied as a dwelling by William Marshall Bullitt, now deceased. Entry was made by opening an unlocked window. Three other windows had been tried and found to be locked. Easley’s intention was to rob the safe known by him to be…