People v. Novick

Plaintiff in error, Alex" Novick, was tried and convicted at the April term, 1914, of the circuit court of Saline county for the crime of burning property to defraud an insurance company and sentenced on this verdict to the penitentiary. The case has been brought to this court by writ of error.

March 5, 1912, plaintiff in error resided in the village of Dorrisville, in Saline county, in a building which he owned and occupied as a residence and in which he also conducted a general store and meat market. The building consisted of four rooms, facing east on a north and south road. The south front…