Butler v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to judgment of corporation court of the city of Alexandria, rendered April 21, 1885, and sentencing Jesse Butler, the plaintiff in error, to confinement in the penitentiary for the period of three years, upon a verdict of the jury finding him guilty, on an indictment for house-breaking with intent to steal, &c.
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
*160The indictment charging that the plaintiff in error, Jesse Butler, “ on the 13th day of February, 1885, in the said city— to wit: within one mile of the corporation limits of said city, did a certain store-house, not adjoining or occupied with the dwelling-house of one David A. Studds, there Situate, in the night time of that day, feloniously did break and enter with intent, the goods and chattels of the said David A. Studds in the said storehouse, then and there being, feloniously to steal, take, and carry away, and twelve dollars of United States silver coin, of the value of twelve dollars,…
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