Hawkins v. State

The plaintiff in error, a negro boy about thirteen years of age, was convicted of burglary; and his motion for a new trial was overruled. The evidence for the State shotys, that the storehouse of the prosecutor had been-burglarized, and that the *110property set out in the indictment, consisting of $7 in silver money, three pounds of cheese and five pounds of crackers, had been stolen therefrom. Several days thereafter this' boy attempted to open the cash drawer in another storehouse, and, for this attempt, wasi severely whipped by the owner of the store. Immediately after this whipping had been…