Jones v. State

Appellant was convicted in the lower court on an indictment charging him with an attempt to commit burglary, and was sentenced to serve a term of five years in thei state penitentiary, from which 'this appeal is prosecuted. The indictment, in part, charges that the appellant did “wilfully, feloniously and burglariously attempt, wilfully, feloniously and burglariously to break and enter the dwelling house of one Mrs. Hester C. Flowers by breaking or forcing a window of said dwelling with the intent wilfully, feloniously and burglariously to take, steal and carry away the personal property…