State v. George

The prisoner is appellant from a judgment sentencing* him to death.

*146The information filed in the inferior court, contains two counts; the first for the crime of arson, and the second for the crime of larceny. Two distinct substantive offences, growing, in all probability, from the same circumstance or transaction, have thus be joined or cumulated in the information. The date of the commission of both offences corresponds, and they appear to have had for their object the property of the same person.

Our attention is called to a bill of exception, taken by the prisoner, to the ruling of the…