Grimes v. State

BRICKELL, 0. J.

The defendant was indicted, in the form prescribed, for arson in the second degree, under the clause of section 4347 of the Code of 1876 which declares, that “ any person who willfully sets fire to, or burns, any inhabited dwelling-house, or any steamboat, or vessel, in which there is at the time no human being, is guilty of arson in the second degree.” The bill of exceptions, without purporting to set out all the evidence, informs us there was evidence showing that two houses were burned; the one, a house used for storing corn and fodder, to which fire was set, situated some…