Hickman v. Brady

This is an appeal from a refusal to issue a writ of habeas corpus.

Appellant is confined in the penitentiary under sentence of nine years imprisonment, on conviction under an indictment which charged that he unlawfully did break a specified “warehouse * * * with intent * * * certain goods and chattels in the said warehouse then and there being found * * * feloniously to steal, take and carry away.” Article 27, sec. 34, 1943 Supplement, provides that every person who shall be convicted of “the crime of * * * breaking a storehouse, warehouse or other outhouse in the day or night with an intent…