House v. State

Citations

• 121 Miss. 43
• 83 So. 337

Syllabus

<p>BtmGiAKT. Instructed acquittal proper where proof failed to show ownership as alleged.</p> <p>In a prosecution for burglary where the indictment laid the ownership of the burglarized building in a railroad company, a corporation, but the evidence failed to show that such railroad com' pany was either a de jtire or de facto corporation, the. court should have given a peremptory instruction for the acquittal of the defendant.</p>