Broughton v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Yan Sant, Commissioner

Reversing.

Appellant, indicted .jointly with. - two accomplices, was tried separately, convicted, and sentenced to serve one year in the State Reformatory, on a charge of breaking into a storehouse with intent to steal. As grounds for reversal of the judgment he contends the Court erred, (1) in overruling his demurrer to the indictment; (2) in permitting the introduction of incompetent evidence; (3) in failing to sustain appellant’s motion to- exclude the evidence of the witness and accomplice, Clifford Hibbard; (4) in not instructing the jury on…