Scott v. State

1. A count for larceny from the house may properly be included in an indictment charging burglary, and a general verdict finding the defendant guilty upon such an indictment, properly cou•strued, is a finding convicting the accused of the higher offense charged; and for that reason the motion in arrest of judgment, alleging that the verdict is too indefinite to authorize the imposition of a sentence, is not well founded, and was properly overruled.

2. The court properly excluded the statement of a witness that “he, Jim Wilson, came to my house and asked me for Cato [the defendant], and I told…