State v. Gilstrap

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Chief Justice Watts.

Appellants are charged in the indictment with housebreaking and larceny. The indictment is regular in form, the first count charging housebreaking, and the second count charging grand larceny.

Appellants were tried at the November, 1928, term of General Sessions Court for Oconee County. The jury rendered a general verdict of guilty, and the presiding Judge sentenced appellants to serve three years at hard labor in the State penitentiary.

The testimony is correctly set out in the agreed return. Appellants’ exceptions, four in…