Hooker v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
John Hooker was indicted in the Circuit court of Patrick county for burning three houses, one of them, an unoccupied dwelling-house, the property of Spencer F. Nowlin, situated in the county of Patrick. The case is stated by Judge Samuels in his opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtSamuels, J.
The plaintiff was indicted in the Circuit court of Patrick county, for having “ feloniously and maliciously set fire to and burned three houses, to wit, an unoccupied dwelling-house, kitchen and smoke-houses and some fodder, being the property of Spencer T. Nowlin.”
*764Upon the trial evidence was given tending to prove that the building described as a dwelling-house had been built for and used as a dwelling-house and for no other purpose, (except as a place of deposit for some fodder for a short time,) until about ten months before it was burnt; that the owner had been in the habit of renting it…
2Cited by27 opinions
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