State v. Myers

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dunbar, C. J.

— The information upon which the appellant was tried, convicted and sentenced to hang was as follows:

‘ ‘ Charles Myers is accused by the prosecuting attorney of Asotin county, State of Washington, by this information, of the crime of murder in the first degree, in causing the death of a person by feloniously, willfully and maliciously setting fire to a certain structure used and occupied as a place of abode and known to be occupied at the time of setting such fire, committed as follows, to wit:

‘ ‘ That the said Charles Myers, in the county…