Ford v. State

Appellant was indicted for burglary at the May, 1896, term of the Holmes county circuit court, with eight others. At the November, 1896, term, a demurrer to the indictment was interposed and sustained, and leave given the state to amend, which was done, and a trial had, resulting in the conviction and sentence of this appellant to imprisonment in the penitentiary for three years. The testimony shows that about the middle of February, 1896, a storehouse in Goodman, Holmes county, was broken and entered in the night time, and probably — not certainly — some goods taken; the goods had been…