Hutchcraft v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Couri by

Judge Thomas

Affirming.

On his trial in the Fulton circuit court, under an in: dietment charging him with housebreaking as denounced by section 1162 of the statutes, the appellant, Dee Hutch-craft, was found guilty and his punishment fixed at confinement in the state penitentiary for two years. His motion for a new trial was overruled and he appeals, urging as grounds for reversal, (1), insufficiency of the indictment; (2), error in the instructions, and (3), insufficiency of the evidence to support the verdict.. 1. Under this ground it is insisted (a), that the…