Wynn v. State

The defendant has been convicted of housebreaking and has appealed in error to this court.

The proprietor of a restaurant in Memphis, after closing his place of business about eleven o’clock at night, on his way home, was held up by three negroes at the point óf a pistol and a small sum of money and a bunch of keys were taken from his person. He received a blow in resisting the assault. The negroes left him and' he reported the matter to the police, telling them that the keys to his'place of business were taken and that it was probably the intention of those assaulting him to enter it. The…