Jones v. State

Deen, Judge.

1. Code § 26-2304 deals with two crimes—malicious destruction or injury to certain buildings wherein no person resides, and the malicious attempt to destroy or injure certain buildings, as to which latter it is not necessary to allege that the building is not itself a residence or so near to a place of residence, etc., as to endanger life. These indictments charged the defendants with a “malicious attempt to destroy and injure” certain buildings, in the course of which they did an overt act by igniting dynamite within the place of business. The motions to dismiss on the ground…