State v. Smith

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Corliss, C. J.

The plaintiff in error demurred to the information on the , ground that it charged two distinct offenses. The demurrer was overruled, and the accused convicted. By this appeal the plaintiff in error challenges the legality of the information. No other point is made. That the information does charge two offenses cannot admit of doubt. It sets forth specifically and in detail all the facts necessary to establish the offense both of burglary and of grand larceny. These are two distinct offenses, although they both happen to be committed in…