State v. Roberts

On the fifteenth day of February, 1887, the grand jury of Multnomah County returned into the Circuit Court of that county an indictment against the defendant, charging him with the crime of arson. The charging part of said indictment is as follows: —

“The said lilis Roberts, on the'thirtieth day of July, A. D. 1886, in the county of Multnomah, and State of Oregon, did wil-fully, maliciously, unlawfully, and feloniously set fire to and burn in the night-time a barn of another, namely, the barn of W. S. Ladd, situated in the county of Multnomah, and State of Oregon, with intent to injure thereby…