State v. . Rogers

The defendant was convicted on an indictment for “willfully and feloniously setting fire to a certain ginhouse, the property of W. B. Hopkins, with intent to burn and destroy the same.” S. v. Purdie, 67 N. C., 25; S. v. Pierce, 123 N. C., 745. The indictment was sufficient both under Revisal, 333.6 and 3341, and it was immaterial under which, as the punishment inflicted was within the limits prescribed for either. Revisal, 3336, covers a willful attempt to burn a “cotton gin,” which from the context evidently means the same thing as a “ginhouse.” Eevisal, 3341, makes punishable the willful…