Mabry v. State

Percy N. Mabry, Calvin Sullivan and William Gordon Sullivan were indicted, tried and convicted on a charge of burglary in the Circuit Court of Grenada County, and were each sentenced to serve a term of three years in the state penitentiary.

The case must be reversed because of errors in the instructions obtained on behalf of the State. There were several instructions granted in the case but in none of them was the crime of burglary defined. Three of the State’s instructions were in identical language, and they *151pertained separately to each, of the defendants. The instruction obtained by the…