Wilborne v. Commonwealth

The plaintiff in error has been pronounced guilty of housebreaking and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary pursuant to the verdict of a jury. 'He here seeks a reversal of the judgment on the ground that the evidence is insufficient to sustain the verdict.

*65The accused offered no evidence and the case is before us on that produced by the Commonwealth. It shows that between the hours of six o’clock p. m. on January 20, 1942, and the next morning, the building occupied by the Standard Oil Bulk Plant, at Farmville, in Prince Edward county, Virginia, was burglarized. Entry was made by cutting…