People v. Fealy
California Court of Appeal
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Napa County, and from an order denying a new trial. Henry C. Gesford, Judge. The facts, are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHart, J.
The defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Napa County for the crime of “willfully and feloniously burning, injuring, and destroying property with the felonious intent to injure, prejudice, damage, and defraud the insurer” of said property. Thereafter he was put upon his trial thereunder, and was convicted by the jury of the crime as so charged, and he appeals from the judgment of conviction and the order denying him a new trial.
The law upon which the indictment was founded is to be found in section 548 of the Penal Code, whose language is as follows:
‘‘ Every person who willfully burns,…
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