Reed v. State

The appellant was charged by indictment in two counts, first with burglary, and second with larceny, and upon a trial by jury, before a special judge, he was convicted of burglary, as charged in said *43first count, and his punishment fixed at three years in the State’s prison, and disfranchisement. Motions were made and overruled to quash the counts of the indictment jointly and severally, and the rulings are claimed to have been erroneous because of the failure, in the count for burglary, to describe the goods intended to be stolen, as the same goods charged in the second count to have been…