State v. Colgate

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Valentine, J.:

The defendant was convicted and sentenced for arson in the fourth degree; and the principal ground now urged for a reversal of the judgment of the trial court is, that such court erred in sustaining a demurrer to the defendant’s plea of a former acquittal. It appears that on August 13, 1882, at about one o’clock in the morning, the grist mill of Bliss & Wood, with all its contents, including *512the books of account of the owners of the mill, was destroyed by fire. Some time afterward, the defendant was prosecuted criminally for setting fire…