Williams v. State

Clark, Judge.

"Chutzpah” 1 is the appropriate word to describe the crime upon which appellant was tried: burglary by breaking into the Jenkins County Courthouse and asportation therefrom of 8 pistols, 5 shotguns, and rifle shells which were in three locked cabinets in the sheriff’s office to be used as evidence in another case with which accused had no connection.

Did the accused who was found guilty at the second trial (the first having ended in a mistrial) and sentenced to 10 years commit this crime?

"Yes,” says the eloquent district attorney emphasizing certain actions of the accused which…