Johnson v. State

THOMAS, J.:

We shall give at the outset a condensation of the witnesses’ accounts of the misdeeds of Sparks Johnson which the jury weighed and found sufficient to establish beyond a reasonable doubt the breaking and entering by him of the property of R. E. Davis, Jr., and Dave Lang Scott with intent to commit grand larceny.

The place entered was a store where liquor was sold in packages.

Long after one midnight the appellant and two companions wakened the storekeeper and bought from him a bottle of whisky. This incident began with their kicking the door and ended with their kicking the…