Mai v. People

Plaintiffs in error were convicted in the criminal court of Cook county under an indictment charging them with unlawfully, willfully and maliciously burning certain saloon fixtures, household furniture and other goods and chattels with an intent to injure the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, England. The indictment consisted of four counts, each count of which charged plaintiffs in error with burning personal property with an intent to injure the insurer, and is predicated in its entirety upon paragraph 48, page 1237, Starr & Curtis’ Annotated Statutes of Illinois, which reads as…