May v. State

Brady, Tom P., J.

Lanell May, Jr. was convicted of burglary of the Hazlehurst Municipal Separate School building known as the Parrish High School, and sentenced to serve five years in the state penitentiary. Prom that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.

The gravamen of the errors assigned by the appellant is that the trial court erred in failing to peremptorily instruct the jury to find for the appellant for the reason that there was no evidence upon which the jury could base a reasonable inference that the appellant broke and entered the schoolhouse with the intent to take, steal and carry…