Adkins v. State

AREND, Justice.

The appellant was tried and convicted under the initial count of an indictment charging him with wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously breaking and entering a dwelling house, the residence of one Natalie Lamont, “with intent to commit a crime therein.” The offense thus charged is couched in the language of the burglary statute set forth in the margin below 1 but does not name the specific crime which the appellant is supposed to have intended to commit.

On this appeal from the judgment of conviction entered against him in the superior court, the appellant contends that the…