State v. Parker

ALDEN A. STOCKARD, Special Judge.

Emmett Parker was charged as a second offender with setting fire to and burning a building with the intent to injure and defraud the insurance company which had insured the contents thereof.

Appellant first challenges the sufficiency of the information because it did not set forth “the manner and means by which [he] was to have committed the offense.” He asserts that this “created an unfair and prejudicial burden upon [him] in meeting the uncertainty of the charge.” No cases are cited.

The information charged that appellant on a stated day “unlawfully, wilfully,…