Fortenberry v. State

HARWOOD, Judge.

This appellant has been convicted of arson in the second degree, an offense denounced by Section 24, Title 14, Code of Alabama 1940.

One of the alternative offenses created by Section 24, supra, is that any person who willfully buriis or. causes to be burned, with intent to defraud, certain named property, owned by himself, shall be guilty of arson in the second degree.

*428The indictment against this appellant, omitting the -formal parts, charges that he, “with intent to defraud, set . fire to or burned, or caused to be burned, or aided or procured the burning of a store building,…