State v. Crouse
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Indictment for arson brought under R. S., Chap. 121. After verdict of guilty, and before sentence, respondent filed a motion in arrest of judgment, setting forth that the indictment did not name or describe the kind or location of the building alleged to have been burned and because no judgment could be legally rendered on said indictment. The motion was overruled by the presiding Justice, to which ruling respondent filed exceptions. Case stated in opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDunn, J.
Arson and kindred crimes are defined by Secs. 1, 2, and 3 of Chap. 121 of the R. S., the section last mentioned reading: “Whoever wilfully and maliciously burns .any building of another not mentioned in the preceding section, .... shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one, nor more than ten years.” Having been convicted upon an indictment, containing a single count, wherein it is charged, “that Alice Crouse, of Rockland, in the *364County of Knox, aforesaid, on the first day of April, A. D. 1918, at Rockland, feloniously, wilfully, and maliciously did burn a certain building the…
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