Turner v. State

Appellant was -convicted under an indictment charging him with the crime of arson, committed by burning his own house, which was situated in the town of Ashdown.

Under the former statutes of this State it was decided by this court in State v. Hanna, 131 Ark. 129, that the burning of one’s own house did not constitute the crime of arson, but subsequently the Legislature enacted a new statute on the subject (Acts of 1919, p. 66, Crawford & Moses’ Digest, § 2417), which reads as follows:

“Every person who shall wilfully and maliciously burn or cause to be burned any dwelling-house or other house,…