State v. Hallock

The respondent was convicted of arson by 'having procured one Brown to burn the bam of one Labor. Against the exception of the respondent, the State was permitted to show that about six weeks prior to the time *160when the barn was burned, the ell part of Labor’s dwelling-house, on the same premises, was set on fire. This evidence was admitted in connection with other evidence on the part of the State tending to show that before the fire in the ell part, the respondent had predicted that Labor’s buildings would burn and had tried to induce and hire other persons to burn them. The evidence also…