State v. Woods

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Manning, C. J.

The defendants were convicted of burglary, and were sentenced to confinement at hard labour for eight years.

*268The charge is, that they “ did in the night-time, and with the felonious intent to steal, feloniously and burglariously break and enter the store of one Jacob King, contrary,” etc.

The first bill of exception is to the admission by the court of evidence to shew that certain articles had been stolen and carried away from the store at the time of the breaking and entering. The defendants’ objection to this is, that they were charged…