State v. Hurt

Baker, C. J.:

At the June 1946, term of the Court of General Sessions for Greenwood County, the appellants, Herbert Hurt and Tandy Wood, were tried before a jury upon an indictment charging them with burglary and grand larceny. The indictment in substance charged them with breaking and entering the dwelling house of one L. V. Griffith, in the nighttime on May 22, 1945, and taking therefrom $22,400.00. The jury acquitted both of the appellants of the first count charging burglary, but convicted them on the second count, grand larceny. Whereupon, the trial Judge sentenced the appellants in the…