Salm v. State

Erom the City Court o£ Decatur. Tried before tbe Hon. E. C. Eyster, as special judge. The indictment in this case contained four counts, each charging tbe defendant, J. M. Salm, with arson in tbe first degree. Tbe first count charged that tbe building was a store-house of Mrs. Sue J. Ecbols, in which a human being was lodged at the time; the second, that it was a store-house, of the Decatur Mineral & Land Company, a corporation; the third, that it was the dwelling-house of H. G. Barnwell, in which he was lodged at the time; and the fourth, that it was a building or store of the Southern Bell…