Miller v. State

The appellant was convicted of arson in the first degree upon an indictment containing four counts. The first count charged that he “ willfully set fire to or burned in the night time a dwelling-house of G. R. Mason, in which there was at the time a human being.” The second charges him in like terms with burning a house adjoining a dwelling-house of G. R. Mason. The third differs from the first only in describing the dwelling-house as the property of N. Tate. The fourth differs from the second only in describing the house burned as one adjoining a dwelling-house of N. Tate. The defendant…