Williams v. State

Defendants were informed against for burglary by breaking into and entering a store building, and the larceny of certain goods contained in said store building. *528On the trial, by the verdict of a jury, they were acquitted of the charge of burglary and found guilty of larceny of property of the value of $146, as charged in the information. Objections are made to certain instructions given by the court on its own motion. It is claimed, in the first place, that the court omitted to instruct the jury that, where burglary is committed with intent to steal, the property must be of some value; and,…