Searles v. State

At the February term, 1891, of the court of common pleas of Huron county, Ohio,, the grand jury returned an indictment against the plaintiff in error, containing four counts. The first of these counts, charges that, “Stephen Searles, late of the county aforesaid, on October 31 in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, at the county aforesaid, did unlawfully,' wilfully and maliciously aid and abet one John Ries to burn a certain carriage repair shop of the value of $200, the property of the said John Ries, with intent in so doing, to prejudice, damage and defraud the…