Humphrey v. State

On an indictment in three counts, charging defendants with (1) housebreaking, (2) larceny, and (3) receiving *379stolen goods, the jury brought in a general veriet against the defendants of “guilty as charged in the indictment,” and fixed their punishment at five years in the penitentiary. Motion for a new trial having been seasonably made and overruled, defendants have perfected appeal to this Court and assigned errors.. At about midnight on a night in the latter part of_ October 1947, the general merchandise store of Conrad Hodges on the highway between Rutledge and Jefferson City, in Grainger…