Eaton v. State

By an information the appellants were charged with breaking and entering a building with intent to commit a felony, to wit, grand larceny. On trial before a jury they were found guilty of the lesser offense of entering without breaking with the said intent. The defendants were adjudged guilty by the court and each was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of three years. Their separate appeals therefrom were consolidated.

The building entered was a meat warehouse. Police officers who responded to a silent alarm set off when the building was entered, apprehended the defendants in the building.…