Hicks v. State
Supreme Court of Florida
Writ of Error to the Criminal Court of Record for Duval County. The' facts in the case are stated in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the Court
Carter, J.:
In June, 1900, the plaintiff in error was tried in the Criminal Court of Record of Duval county, and found guilty as charged, upon an information alleging that he, on May 9, 1900, in Duval county, Florida, “did then and there wilfully and maliciously set fire to' and burn a building there situate, to-wit: the dwelling-house of one Wesley Hearn, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc., and sentenced to' confinement in the State prison at hard labor for life.
I. Defendant moved in arrest of judgment upon the ground that the section of the Revised Statutes upon which the information…
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