Springs v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Chiep Justice Sampson—

Reversing.

The appellant was tried in the court below under an indictment charging him with the crime of wilfully and feloniously burning a barn, the property of J. L. Robertson, and by verdict of the jury found guilty and his punishment fixed at confinement for two years in the penitentiary. He complains of the judgment entered on the verdict and of the refusal of the circuit court to grant him a new. trial, and has appealed.

The indictment charged that he acted with one Fred Moneymaker, a tenant of his, in burning the barn, and *260it-appears from the…