State v. Woods

LEWIS, Judge.

The defendant was charged in a proper bill of indictment on 21 October 1989, among other crimes, with wantonly and willfully burning “an uninhabited storage building located at 607 Old Highway 10, Marion, North Carolina” in violation of N.C.G.S. § 14-62. A trial was held on the charges beginning on 10 June 1991, in McDowell County before the Honorable Herbert 0. Phillips, III. At trial the evidence presented tended to show that on 18 October 1989, defendant was an inmate in the North Carolina Department of Correction. While working on a road crew in McDowell County between Marion…