Jordan v. State

By indictment the appellant was charged with having “unlawfully, feloniously, willfully and maliciously set fire to and burned a certain flouring, grist and corn mill-house of Samuel A. Jordan, Aaron G. Jordan and Winfield S. Lane,” etc. A motion to quash the indictment was overruled and, upon a trial by jury, the appellant was found guilty as charged. The only assigned errors of the trial court are in overruling the motion to quash the indictment and in overruling a motion for a new trial. It is contended that the indictment was insufficient in failing to charge the burning of a building and…