Shaw v. State

Appellant was indicted, tried and convicted in the Circuit Court of Pike County, Mississippi, under Mississippi Code Annotated section 2010 (1956), for having caused his house to he burned by another for the purpose of collecting the insurance.

Mississippi Code Annotated section 2010 (1956) provides as follows:

“Any person who wilfully and with intent to injure or defraud the insurer sets fire to or burns or attempts so to do or who causes to be burned or who aids, counsels or procures the burning of any building, structure or personal property, of whatsoever class or character, whether the…