State v. McDonald

ODOM, Justice.

The bill of information filed against these defendants charges that they “unlawfully did break and enter, in the night time, the American Hat Company, located at 810 Texas Avenue, City of Shreveport, Louisiana, with the intent to commit larceny.” The jury impaneled to try them returned the following verdict: “We, the jury, find the defendants-guilty of entering in the night time, without breaking.”

From this verdict and a judgment sentencing them to hard labor, defendants prosecute this appeal.

The case is brought upon three bills of exception. Bill No. 1 was reserved to the…