State v. Lockwood
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Indictment for Attempt to Commit Arson (No. 56, September. Term, 1909).
1Opinion of the Court
Woolley, J.,
charging the jury:
Gentlemen of the jury:—Ross Lockwood, the prisoner at the bar, is charged in this indictment with having attempted wilfully and maliciously to set on fire a dwelling house, in which there were at the time human beings. The felony, the perpetration of which the prisoner is charged to have attempted, is arson, no better definition of which can be given you than by the inhibitory words of our own statute relating to that offense. This statute (Rev. Code 1852, amendedin 1893, p. 933 Chap. 128 Sec.1) provides-that, “If any person shall wilfully and maliciously burn or…
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