Williams v. State

OPINION

DALLY, Commissioner.

The conviction is for burglary; the punishment, imprisonment for two years.

We are first confronted with the question of the sufficiency of the indictment. The sufficiency of indictments for the offense of burglary, alleging entry was made by discharging firearms into a house with intent to injure a person therein, has through the years given this Court much difficulty.1

*839The relevant parts of the indictment in this case read as follows:. . that CLARENCE WILLIAMS on or about the 10th day of January, A.D.1972, in said County and State, did commit the offense of burglary…