Brown v. State

Jackson, Judge.

Lewis Brown was indicted for the offense of burglary at night. He was convicted, and moved for a new trial, which was refused, and he excepted.

The only grounds insisted bn here as error, are that the court declined to charge as requested, and that the verdict was against law in that the possession of the goods, with the corpus delicti, or the fact that the house was broken open by some one, is not sufficient evidence to convict of the burglary, and that the evidence did not show the crime to have been committed at night. ,

1. The request was this: “ If you are in doubt whether…