State v. Elder

This case comes before us on three bills of exceptions, reserved by tbe defendant, who was indicted for feloniously, willfully and maliciously sotting fire to and burning “the barn -and .stable, not adjoining to a dwelling bouse, the property of W. J. Sharp,” and was convicted and sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor.

First — On the trial, after the jury liad been empanneled, the District Attorney was permitted by the court to amend the indictment so as to pjftke the clause quoted above read as folio ws: “ The bam and stable, *158not adjoining to a dwelling house, the aforesaid ham and stable…