De Latour v. State

This is an appeal in a criminal cause, in which, in the criminal court, it was charged by affidavit that the appellant, on or about June 22, 1927, at and in the county of Marion and State of Indiana, did then and there unlawfully, feloniously, wilfully and maliciously set fire to and burn a certain church of the value of $35,000, and further alleged that the appellant had been three times formerly convicted, sentenced and imprisoned for felony. He was tried by a jury and found guilty of the crime of arson in the second degree and of being an habitual criminal. The judgment was that, for the…