State v. Barker

At the April term, 1876, of the Clinton circuit court, defendant and one Kennedy were, jointly indicted for burglary in the second degree, and grand larceny. The indictment contained but one count and is in the usual form, and the larceny charged is the stealing of goods, wares and merchandise, specifically described, of the value of fifty dollars, and the property of R. C. Stevens and Thomas K. Smith, into whose store house, it is alleged, defendant burglariously and feloniously broke and entered.

At the same terms, there was a trial of the cause, which resulted in the acquittal of Kennedy…