People v. Kalbfeld

Hardies, J. (Acting Judge):

Defendant demurs to the indictment charging him with the crime of arson in the second degree. The indictment contains three counts. He is charged with burning a shop and factory-building owned by him. The first count charges him with willfully, maliciously and unlawfully setting fire to the building with intent to burn it, “ which aforesaid building did adjoin and in close proximity to an inhabited building,” and then names a dwelling house, and alleges, “ in which dwelling house there was then and there a human being.” The second "count charges that he set fire to…