State v. Faddoul

The intention in this case was to prosecute the respondent for the crime described in Section 24 of Chap. 138, Rev. Stat. 1930. The statutory offense is set forth as follows :

“Persons burning their own property to defraud insurers; penalty. R. S. c. 128, sec. 22. If an owner or person in any way concerned, interested or in possession of any building, goods, or other property, insured against loss or damage by fire, wilfully burns the same or causes it to be burned, with intent to defraud the insurer, he shall be punished by imprisonment for not less than one year, nor more than twenty years.”

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