Adams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Chambers Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. James E. Cobb. The appellants, Joshua Adams and Crosby McIntosh, were jointly indicted, tried and convicted for the burning of a crib. The indictment averred that it was the property of one Caleb N. Williams.
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Appeal from Chambers Circuit Court. Tried before Hon. James E. Cobb. The appellants, Joshua Adams and Crosby McIntosh, were jointly indicted, tried and convicted for the burning of a crib. The indictment averred that it was the property of one Caleb N. Williams. It appeared, on the trial, that the crib was situated on a plantation which was owned jointly by the said Caleb N. Williams and one N. L. Atkinson, but that Williams was in the actual possession of the place, under a contract with Atkinson, by which the profits annually arising from its cultivation, (after deducting the' expenses of…
1Opinion of the CourtBrickell, C. J.
The indictment is founded on the statute, (Code of 1876, § 4348,) for arson in the third degree, and charges the defendants with having set fire to or burned a crib, being a house or building, and the property of Caleb N. Williams. The evidence, on the trial, showed the crib was the property of said Williams and N. L. Atkinson, as tenants in common, but Williams had the exclusive possession, and was in the actual occupancy of the premises on which the ■crib was situate, under a contract with Atkinson, by which tho annual profits of cultivation, aftor deducting the expenses and two hundred and…
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