Dees v. State

The plaintiffs in error, defendants below, were convicted in the circuit court of Lafayette County, upon an indictment charging them jointly with breaking and entering a storage house with intent to commit a misdemeanor — petit larceny — and each was given a sentence of two years in the State prison.

The only assignment of error presented here is based upon the overruling of the motion for new trial, and the only ground of the motion for new trial insisted upon is that the verdict is contrary to the law and weight of the evidence. Under this assignment, defendants contend that there was no…