Barron v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the circuit court of Simpson county. Hon. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Will Barron was convicted of arson and appeals. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtPotter, J.
Will Barron, the appellant, was convicted of the crime ■of arson and sentenced to the penitentiary, from which judgment he appeals. The indictment charged that the defendant did unlawfully, etc., set fire to a certain barn, the property then and there of Nelson Payne.
The. proof in this case is insufficient to establish the-corpus delicti. In establishing the corpus delicti of the crime of arson, it is not only necessary for the state to prove that the property of the prosecutor named in the *232indictment was burned, but to establish, also, that the fire originated through a criminal agency.
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