Case ID: ga-app_4/html/0273-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Powell, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

1037.
    Boyd v. The State.
    Indictment for burglary, from Terrell superior court — Judge Worrill. February 8, 1908.
    Submitted March 31,
    Decided April 22, 1908.
    
      21. C. Edwards, for plaintiff in error.
    
      J. A.- Laing, solicitor-general, R. R. Arnold, J. B. Ridley, contra.
   Powell, J.

1. Where an indictment for burglary alleges, as the purpose of the breaking, the intent to commit a larceny, no description, value, or ownership of any goods intended to be stolen need be alleged. Tarver v. State, 95 Ga. 223 (21 S. E. 381) ; Kidd v. State, 101 Ga. 528 (28 S. E. 990) ; Lanier v. State, 76 Ga. 304; Berry v. State, 124 Ga. 825 (53 S. E. 616).

2. Where one person rents a house and uses it as a dwelling, but allows a room therein to be occupied by a boarder or lodger, and this room is burglarized, the ownership of the house, in an indictment for burglary, may be alleged either in the general or in the special occupant.

Judgment affirmed.