Murphy v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM MEMPHIS. This cause was tried at the July Term, 1869, when there was a verdict and judgment against the defendant; from which he has appealed to this Court. Judge G. P. Foute, presiding.
1Opinion of the CourtAlvin Hawkins, J.
The plaintiff in error was indicted in the Criminal *517Court of Memphis for feloniously and unlawfully breaking open and entering the house of T. J. Walker, “for the purpose of committing a larceny therein, to-wit: to steal, take and carry away, one cloak of the value of thirty-five dollars, of the goods and chattels of said T. J. Walker.
The accused plead not guilty. The jury rendered their verdict in the following words: “The defendant is guilty in manner and form, as charged in the writ of indictment, and they affix the term of his imprisonment in the jail and penitentiary house of the State,…
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