Goodwin v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Sampson

Affirming.

Appellants, C. A. Goodwin and Bryan Goodwin, were each sentenced to the penitentiary for one year for burning a store on a verdict and judgment of the Ballard circuit court, and they appeal, relying upon several grounds. They demurred to the indictment and now insist that the demurrer should have been sustained “because the indictment charged the defendants with the crime of unlawfully, willfully and feloniously burning a storehouse, while in the body of the indictment they are charged with burning a building and stock of merchandise kept…