Stitz v. State

The indictment upon which the appellant was convicted charges him with the crime of arson, and ■charges, also, that the crime was committed for the purpose of defrauding the Phenix Insurance Company, which had issued a policy of insurance upon the building burned.

The State was permitted to give in evidence a claim made by the appellant for property destroyed by the fire, and to prove that he put a value upon the property beyond its real worth. We regard this evidence as competent. We do not, however, agree with the counsel for the State, that it was competent for the purpose of impeaching the…