State v. Johnson
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Henry District Court. This was an indictment for setting fire to certain mate* rial with intent to cause the burning of a barn, the property of one George Downs, of the value, &c. Yerdict of guilty,, judgment thereon, and the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Wright, Ch. J.
i. Anson: indictment. This indictment is based upon section 427 of the Revision, which declares that if any person set fire to any building, &c., or to any material, with cauS6 any ¡uch building, &c., to be burnth he shall be punished, &c. The count upon which the conviction was had, charges that Henry Johnson, at, &c., on, &c., feloniously, &c., intending to (set) fire to and cause to be burned a certain barn, &c., did feloniously, &c., cause and procure, and place a certain lighted candle in and among a certain quantity of hay and grain, there and then being in the said barn,…
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