Turknett v. State

In this case plaintiff in error was convicted in the Criminal Court of Record of Duval County under an information in one count charging the offense of an attempt to feloniously break and enter a certain store house of Lane Drug Stores, a corporation, with intent then and there to take, steal and carry away the money, property, goods and chattels of another of the value of Fifty ($50.00) Dollars.

We have two statutes denouncing breaking and entering with intent to commit larceny. Section 5116 R. G. S., 7217 C. G. L., under which this prosecution was had denounces the offense of breaking and…