Key v. State

CLARK, Supernumerary Circuit Judge.

A jury found appellant guilty of burglary in the second degree as charged in one count of an indictment and guilty of grand larceny as charged in another count of the indictment. The maximum sentence for each is ten years imprisonment in the penitentiary. Title 14, Code of Alabama, § 86 (Burglary in the second degree) and § 331 (Grand larceny). The trial court first sentenced him to imprisonment in the penitentiary for nine years on each charge, but thereafter reduced the sentence to six years. In each instance the judgment sentencing him provided that the…