State v. Henricksen

On the 23d day of January, 1931, the county attorney of Decatur County, Iowa, filed a county attorney’s information against the defendant, charging him with having, on or about the night of January 21, 1931, in the county of Decatur, state of Iowa, willfully, unlawfully, feloniously, and maliciously set fire to a certain barn located in the town of Woodland in said county, then and there occupied by Harold Beavers as a barn and then and there the property of one Mattie Henricksen. There was a plea of not guilty. The case was tried to a jury, and the jury returned a verdict of guilty.

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