Court Opinion

ID: 6510777
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-19 18:22:09.841585+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:54:31.866464
License: Public Domain

STONE, J.
An indictment charging defendant with burglariously breaking and entering a building in which cotton was kept at the time for use, sale, or deposit, with intent to steal, and with stealing therefrom sixty pounds of seed-cotton of the value of three dollars, will support a conviction for petit larceny in stealing the cotton. Such finding is an acquittal of the burglary, and is good for the minor offense embraced in the charge. — Clark’s Manual, §§ 878-9 ; 2 Bussell on Crimes, Sharswood’s ed., 64 et seq.; 2 Whar. Amer. Crim. Law, §§ 1615-6.
The judgment is affirmed.