Staeger v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Lebanon count]/ : Of January Term 1883, No. 320. Indictment of Jacob W. Staeger for burning the barn of Jefferson Light. Plea, not guilty. The indictment contained seven counts.
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Error to the Court of Oyer and Terminer of Lebanon count]/ : Of January Term 1883, No. 320. Indictment of Jacob W. Staeger for burning the barn of Jefferson Light. Plea, not guilty. The indictment contained seven counts. The first six charged the defendant with feloniously, willfully and maliciously setting fire to a barn, within the curtilage, and a parcel of the dwelling-house of Jefferson Light; said counts being for felonious arson Tinder section 337 of the Crimes Act of March 31st 1860 (P. L. 415). The seventh count was for “ feloniously, unlawfully, willfully and maliciously ” setting…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Paxson
The plaintiff in error was convicted in the court below of a misdemeanor in willfully and maliciously setting fire to a barn. The indictment contained seven counts, in the first six of which he was charged with felonious arson under the 137th section of the Crimes Act of March 31st I860, P. L. 415, and in the last count with the misdemeanor of burning a barn under the 138th section of said Act; upon this last count he was convicted and sentenced.
The record having been removed into this court for review, it was assigned for error “ that all the counts in the indictment under which he was…
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