State v. Long

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, C. J.:

Defendant was convicted of two felonies charged in separate counts in the same information. The first count was a charge of burglary in the first degree. The second count was a charge of larceny of a Hamilton watch committed in the course of the burglary alleged in count one.

Upon conviction defendant was sentenced on count one to penal servitude for a term of ten to twenty-one years, and upon count two to penal servitude for a term of one to five years “in addition to the punishment prescribed for burglary in the first degree.” Defendant…