State v. Owens

The appellant in this case was prosecuted under information presented to the Superior Criminal Court of New Orleans charging that on the fourth of May, 1874, the appellant, in the night time, broke and entered the dwelling-house of one E. J. Hertleb with intent to steal. He was convicted and sentenced to hard labor in the Penitentiary for ten years. He appeals from this sentence. The case is 'before this court on a bill of exceptions, which sets forth that the judge a quo overruled the defendant’s plea of autrefois acquit, interposed by him upon hearing the information read, and thereupon…