Hall v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was prosecuted under an indictment charging him as an accomplice to the burglary of the depot of the Orient Railway Company at the little village of Carney. Two errors are urged: First, the insufficiency of the evidence; second, the misconduct of the jury. Appellant was not charged as a principal but as an accomplice, advising, etc., those who should have burglarized the depot. The theory of the State, which is supported by the evidence, is that the burglary was committed for the purpose of stealing whisky which had been shipped in over the railroad by the…