Young v. State

These two defendants were convicted of housebreaking and larceny, with their maximum punishment fixed at five years in the penitentiary.

The defendants do not make any question as to the facts but contend that the trial judge erroneously overruled a plea of autrefois acquit.

It appears that at the October term, 1946, the defendants were indicted in the circuit court of Hamblen County by an indictment charging them with housebreaking and larceny. The building claimed to have been broken into was set out in the indictment as the business house of Leon Clifton, and the property claimed to have…