Ayres v. State

delivered tlie opinion for the Court.

This record embraces two indictments and two convictions for statutory arson. In each case there was a motion to quash, which was overruled. Subsequently there were motions in arrest. The ground of these motions was that the description of the property was too vague and uncertain to put the defendant on notice, in this: that the averment in each case was that the property feloniously burned was “situated in the city of Nashville.”

The counsel of the defendant relied for his contention on State v. Wacker, 16 Mo. App., 417, in which it was held that such a…