Motes v. State

There was a general verdict of guilty by the jury. The indictment against this appellant, defendant in the court below, contained three counts, charging separately the offenses of burglary, grand larceny, and receiving stolen property (felony).

On the trial of this case it was shown without dispute that the store of R. L. Henderson, near Somerville, Morgan county, Ala., was broken into and entered on the Saturday night before the first Sunday in August in the year 1921, and that a large amount of goods or merchandise or clothing was on that occasion feloniously taken and carried away. The…