Tyler v. Commonwealth

In this case the' indictment charged the accused with feloniously breaking and entering, in the night time, a storehouse of one S. P. Mann, with the intent to commit larceny, and that the accused did feloniously steal, take and carry away one gold watch charm of the value of five dollars, of the goods and chattels of the said S. P. Mann in the said storehouse then and there being found, etc. There were two trials. Upon the first trial the jury were unable *870to agree. Upon the second trial the verdict of the jury was as follows: “We, the jury, find the prisoner guilty of housebreaking and fix…