State v. Craig

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The defendant was prosecuted on a charge of arson for the burning of a barn on a farm which he held as tenant, the title to the farm being one-half in his mother and one-sixth each in defendant’s brother, sister, and himself.

The barn was burned in August, 1925, and defendant was arrested therefor some time later. His first trial was without result. At the second trial, defendant’s mother, Blanche Craig, called as a witness for the state, testified that she and her mother and the defendant lived on the farm, a short distance northeast of…