State v. Johnson

Shortly after seven o’clock on the morning of March 9, 1939, an explosion demolished the front end of a truck which was parked on Spring Avenue in the city of Sioux Falls. Defendant was charged under the provisions of Section 4327, R. C. 1919 (SDC 13.1605),. which provides: “Every person who willfully destroys or attempts to destroy by the use of explosives, any property real or personal, public or private,' * * * not the property of such person, although the same is done under such circumstances as not to endanger the life or safety of any human being, shall be guilty of a felony * * The…