Washington v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Arson. Charge of court. Practice. Before Judge Bower. Dougherty superior court. April term, 1890. Reported in the decision.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
1. The defendant below was tried for the crime of arson, it being alleged that he maliciously set fire to and attempted to burn a guard-house in the city of Albany. This court, in the case of Jenkins v. The State, 53 Ga. 33, having settled the law that burning a hole in the door, or attempting to buru one through the floor, of a guard-house in an incorporated town, merely for the purpose of effecting his escape and without intending “to consume or to generally injure the building,” neither of such results occurring, did not make one guilty of arson, the court below, on the…
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