State v. Perry
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Appeal from Fifteenth Judicial District Court, Parish of Calcasieu; Edmund Dennis Miller, Judge. Jack Perry was found guilty of burglary and larceny, and appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMonroe, J.
Defendant, being charged in separate counts of the same information (1) with breaking and entering a dwelling house in the daytime with intent to steal, and (2) with the larceny at the same time and place of one man’s coat, of the value of $10, and one silver watch, of the value of $12, was tried by a jury of 12 and found guilty on both counts; the value of the goods being fixed at $16. He then filed a motion in arrest of judgment, in which he avers that the two offenses could not lawfully be prosecuted under the same information; that the burglary charged is a felony, triable by a jury of…
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