Hewitt v. State

Appellant Hewitt was tried on April 24, 1964, by Judge Lindsay, sitting without a jury, in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County. He was tried upon a criminal information containing 5 counts; the first charged him with having, on April 2, 1964, broken and entered the outhouse of one Joel Brown with intent to commit a felony therein, to wit, feloniously to steal goods and chattels (this, of course, meant that the goods intended to have been stolen had to be of the value of $100 or more, Code [1957], Article 27, § 340); the second charged him with having broken said outhouse with intent to…