People v. Handley
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from Lenawee. (Lane, J.) Eespondent was convicted of burning the vacant dwelling-house of another. The facts are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorse, C. J.
The respondent was informed against in the Lenawee circuit court, and charged with having set fire to and burned “a certain brick dwelling house,” the property of William Anderson. Section 9123 of Howell’s ■Statutes provides that—
“ Every person who shall willfully and maliciously burn, in the night-time, the dwelling-house of another, or shall, in the night-time, willfully and maliciously set fire to any *47•other building, owned by himself or another, by the burning whereof such dwelling-house shall be burnt in the night-time, shall be punished by imprisonment in the State prison for life” or…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Snyder v. PeopleMichigan Supreme Court · 1872
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