Coca v. People

Alfred David Coca was convicted by a jury of the crime of burglary (forcibly breaking and entering a warehouse with the intent to commit larceny therein) and thereafter he was duly sentenced to a term in the State Penitentiary. By writ of error Coca now seeks reversal of this judgment and as grounds therefor contends:

1. that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict of the jury and that the trial court should have directed a verdict of acquittal;

2. that the trial court erred in refusing to give three tendered instructions which embodied the defendant’s so-called theory of the case;…