Potter v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
From the Circuit Court of Escambia. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. The appellant in this case, Wade Potter, was indicted, tried and convicted of burglary. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the first count, which is set out in the opinion. There was a motion made in arrest of judgment, which was overruled by the court. The grounds of said motion are sufficiently set out in the opinion of this court.
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From the Circuit Court of Escambia. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. The appellant in this case, Wade Potter, was indicted, tried and convicted of burglary. The jury returned a verdict of guilty on the first count, which is set out in the opinion. There was a motion made in arrest of judgment, which was overruled by the court. The grounds of said motion are sufficiently set out in the opinion of this court. The evidence, as adduced by the State, showed that the kitchen, a part of the dwelling-house of one Arnold, was broken open and entered prior to the finding of the indictment in this…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
Appellant was indicted and convicted under section 3786 of the Criminal Code. The jury having returned a verdict of guilty on the first count of the indictment, which charges that the accused, with intent to steal, broke into and entered the dwelling-house of George Arnold, a motion was made in arrest of judgment, and overruled. The motion is based on the insufficiency of the first count, consisting, as is contended, in the- omission to aver that the dwelling-house was a house in which goods, merchandise or other valuable thing, was kept for use, sale or deposit; or that it was specially…
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