State v. Teal

Taylor, Justice.

The appellant, James Teal, was convicted at the October Term of General Sessions Court for Marlboro County of the crimes of Breaking and Entering and Grand Larceny for which he was sentenced to serve three years on each count, the sentences to run concurrently.

Mr. Wilbur Hodges, owner of the building which had been entered, testified that the building was locked with a padlock as of Sunday, January 28, 1951; that on Wednesday morning, January 31, he noticed that the lock had been cut apparently with bolt cutters and had fallen in pieces to the cement floor on the outside of…