Sheedy v. State

The appellant was indicted in the circuit court of Choctaw county upon a charge of arson, the indictment charging that he “did ... set fire to and burn a certain public building, to-wit, a schoolhouse, the property of the Union school district in said county, contrary,” etc.

A number of errors have been assigned, but we deem it necessary to notice one only,-and that is, the proof does not conform to the indictment. A deed was introduced in evidence for the purpose of showing the ownership of tlie property, reading as follows:

“Mrs. Aciden Johnson to the Union School,

“The State of Mississippi,…