Legal Opinion

Womack v. State

Tennessee Supreme Court

Decided December 15, 1880Published

FROM WARREN. Appeal in error from the Circuit Court of Warren ■county. J. ’J. Williams, J.

1Opinion of the CourtCooper, J.

Womack has appealed in error from a judgment •of conviction of the offense of breaking into a business house with intent to commit larceny.

*147The first point made in his behalf is, that' the in"dictment is insufficient. The charge is, that the defendant did “feloniously break open and enter into the business house of J. H. Towles & Brother, with 4he intent to feloniously take, steal and carry away the goods and chattels of the said J. H. Towles &■ Brother, then and there to be had and found in said 'business house.” The statute makes it a felony “ to ■break and enter into the business house,…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Sevier v. StateTennessee Supreme Court · 1859
  2. State v. EvansTennessee Superior Court for Law and Equity · 1806

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