The People v. Wolf

Plaintiff in error, Ulysses S. Wolf, was tried and convicted of arson by a jury in the circuit court of Clay county. Motions for a new trial and in arrest of judgment were overruled. Judgment was entered on the verdict, and plaintiff in error was sentenced to serve an indeterminate term in the penitentiary. He has sued out this writ of error.

The first count of the indictment charges that Wolf on the 5th day of July, 1926, “unlawfully, feloniously, willfully and maliciously did set fire to and burn a certain barn of one Everett Steele.” The second count charges that Wolf on said date…