State v. Pray

McClain, J.—

Defendant was convicted, on circumstantial evidence, of having set fire at night to a livery barn in the town of Grand Junction. It appears without question that, a short time before the barn was discovered to be on *251fire, tbe defendant bad purchased a jug of Kerosene oil at a grocery store not far away, and that he was seen going from the grocery store in .the direction of the barn; that kerosene had been thrown on the side of the barn before it was ignited; and that a jug.which had contained kerosene oil was found in the vicinity, which some witnesses testified was the same jug…