Stokes v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Burglary. Criminal law. Evidence. Indictment. Practice. Judgments. Verdict. Before Judge Harris. Coweta superior court. March teim, 1889. Indictment for burglary. The testimony for the State showed as follows: On the morning of thelóth or 16th of January, 1889, the fastening of a door of the Atlanta & West Point Pail road Company in Grantville, Coweta county, was found broken or knocked out of the door and the door open.
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Burglary. Criminal law. Evidence. Indictment. Practice. Judgments. Verdict. Before Judge Harris. Coweta superior court. March teim, 1889. Indictment for burglary. The testimony for the State showed as follows: On the morning of thelóth or 16th of January, 1889, the fastening of a door of the Atlanta & West Point Pail road Company in Grantville, Coweta county, was found broken or knocked out of the door and the door open. This door had been closed and fastened on the previous night by a servant of that company, who was the last to leave the depot. In one room were indications that a lantern…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
The plaintiff" in error was found guilty of the offence of burglary; the bill of indictment charging that in the county of Coweta, on the 16th of January, 1889, he entered into the depot at Grantville in said county, the said depot being a place of business of the Atlanta & West Point Railroad Company, a corporation of this State, and the same being a house wherein valuable goods and wares were stored, and that he feloniously and burglariously did break and enter the same with intent then and there to steal therefrom. He made a motion for a new trial, which was overruled,…
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