State v. Cohn
Nevada Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe Eigbtb Judicial District, White Pine County. Tbe defendant was charged by tbe indictment with tbe “ crime of arson in tbe second degree, committed as follows, to wit: That tbe said Alexander Cohn, at tbe County of White Pine, State aforesaid, in tbe day time on tbe twenty-seventh day of June, A. D. 1873, that certain building, to wit: a building situate on the east side of Main street in the town of Hamilton, county and State aforesaid,…
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Appeal from tbe District Court of tbe Eigbtb Judicial District, White Pine County. Tbe defendant was charged by tbe indictment with tbe “ crime of arson in tbe second degree, committed as follows, to wit: That tbe said Alexander Cohn, at tbe County of White Pine, State aforesaid, in tbe day time on tbe twenty-seventh day of June, A. D. 1873, that certain building, to wit: a building situate on the east side of Main street in the town of Hamilton, county and State aforesaid, known and called the “Jackson House,” then and there the property of one Andrew Jackson of said County of White Pine,…
1Opinion of the Court
*186By the Court,
Whitman, C. J.:
The indictment in this case was for arson in the. second degree, under the following section of the crimes and punishment act, “Sec. 57. Every person who shall wilfully and maliciously burn, or cause to be burned, any dwelling house or building owned by himself, or the property of another, in the day time * * * ‘ shall be deemed guilty of arson in the second degree.”
Appellant claims,-that although indicted under section 57, he was tried under section 58, as follows, “Sec. 58. Every person who shall wilfully burn, or cause to be burned, any building, or any goods,…
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