Washington v. State

At the spring term of the Circuit Court held in and for Marion county in 1884, the plaintiff in error, James Washington, was indicted under the statute of 1883, chapter 3463, for breaking and entering a building, to wit: a meat house of Lorenzo D. Geiger, with intent to steal and carry *329away property of less than the value of twenty dollars. The allegation is that the breaking was in the night time. There is no allegatión that any of the property was stolen or any larceny committed. This indictment was endorsed with the printed words: “ A true bill,” signed “ Francis E. Harris, Foreman.”…