State v. Johnson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Watkins, J.

The accused was indicted, tried aud convicted of burglary and larceny, committed in the nighttime of the 23d of January, 1886, and from a sentence by the court, to fourteen years imprisonment in the penitentiary, in pursuance of the verdict of the jury, has appealed.

The indictment charges, in substance, that the accused and Nathan Taylor, “on the 23d of January, 1886, in the nighttime the dwelling house of Joseph 0. Toups * * feloniously and burglariously did break and enter, with intent the goods and chattels of the said Joseph ,0. Toups,…