Commonwealth v. Pogach

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Hyman Pogach was convicted in the court below under an indictment drawn in the language of Section 4 of the Act of April 25, 1929, P. L. 767, 18 PS §3024, the applicable portion of which reads: “Any person who, wilfully and with intent to injure or defraud the insurer, sets fire to, or burns, or causes to be burned, ......any goods, wares, merchandise, or other chattels, or personal property of any kind, whether the property of himself or of another, which shall, at the time, be insured by any person or corporation against loss or damage by fire, shall be guilty of a…