Cobb v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Ratlipp

Reversing.

The grand jury of Madison county, Ky., returned an indictment against appellant, charging him with housebreaking. It was charged that he broke into the storehouse of Mrs. Anna M. Robinson, doing business as Robinson Poultry Company, in Richmond, Ky., with the felonious intent to steal therefrom. A second count in the indictment charged two previous convictions of a felony as provided in section 1130 of the Kentucky Statutes, known as the “Habitual Criminal Act,”’ as follows :

“The grand jurors do further charge and present that said Coleman Cobb,…