Barrett v. State

Appellant was tried under an indictment containing two counts, and was convicted upon each of them. The first charged him with the commission of the crime of burglary; the second with that of grand larceny. It is insisted that the testimony is insufficient to sustain either charge, and it is especially urged that the conviction for grand larceny must be reversed for the reason that the property obtained upon entering the house broken into did not exceed ten dollars in value.

The stolen property consisted principally of wearing apparel and a leather hand bag’, and the owner stated the aggregate…