State v. Knotts

Caplan, Judge:

In an indictment returned by the grand jury attending the March Term, 1969, of the Criminal Court of Harrison County, the defendant, Patrick Thomas Knotts, was charged in two counts with the commission of a felony. The first count charged him with breaking and entering and the second with entering without breaking. Each count accused said defendant with feloniously stealing and carrying away certain items, the total value of which was $2,541.94.

Upon trial the jury returned a verdict of guilty of grand larceny as charged in the indictment. It appearing from an information filed…