Hendrickson v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Chief Justice Thomas

Reversing.

The appellant and defendant below, Bill Hendrickson, and one Ben Dewey Jones, were jointly indicted by tbe grand jury of Bell county, in which, they were accused of feloniously and unlawfully breaking and entering the storehouse ,of A. P. Napier with the felonious intent of stealing therefrom articles of value, and which they did, and appropriate them to their own use. At his separate trial thereunder, appellant was convicted and punished by confinement for one year in the state penitentiary. His motion for a new trial was overruled, and…