State v. Johnson

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The accused was indicted, tried and convicted of burglary and larceny, committed in the night time of the 24th of January, 1886, and from a sentence by the court to fourteen years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary, in pursuance of the verdict of the jury, has appealed.

The indictment charges, in substance, that Charles Johnson and Nathan Taylor did, on the 24th of January, 1886, feloniously break and enter, in the night-time, the dwelling-house of Cyprien Guidrey, and therefrom did take, steal and carry away one gold watch, of the value of…