Spurgeon v. State

The defendant, John Gr. Spur-geon, was indicted and convicted under a statute which makes it an offense punishable by fine, or imprisonment in the State Penitentiary, to “wilfully or maliciously destroy or injure any inclosure, building ■* * * or any real or personal property whatsoever, by means of dynamite, gunpowder or other explosive.” Crawford & Moses’ Digest, § 2528. The charge in the indictment is that defendant injured a dwelling house in the city of Little Rock, owned and occupied by W. J. Kooms, by placing on the porch a dynamite bomb, which exploded, and practically wrecked the…