Powers v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

The offense is theft of personal property over the value of fifty dollars. The punishment assessed is confinement in the state penitentiary for a period of five years.

The indictment in this case contains two counts in the first of which appellant is charged with burglary. This count is followed by a paragraph charging that theretofore, on the 16th day of July, 1936, in the district court of Lea County, State of New Mexico, in Cause No. 411, the said Buck Powers was legally convicted in said last-named court of the offense of taking, carrying away and stealing from the dwelling…