People v. Taylor

By the Court, Wing, J.

*251The indictment in this case is founded upon section three of chapter 154, and section one of chapter 161, title SO of the revised statutes. The first named section provides that “ every person who shall wilfully and maliciously bum in the night time, any bam, stable, shop, or office, of another, within the curtilage of any dwelling house,” &c.

There are but two questions of any importance presented by the record for the judgment of the Court.* The first is whether the Circuit Court gave to the jury the correct definition of the term “ curtilage the second is whether the…