State v. . Morgan
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CRIMINAL ACTION, tried before Meares, Judge, at March Term, 1887, of the Criminal Court of New Hanover county. The indictment charged that the defendant “feloniously,, wilfully, maliciously and unlawfully did set fire to a certain house, used as a shop and store, then and there situate,” &c. On the trial there was a verdict of guilty.
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CRIMINAL ACTION, tried before Meares, Judge, at March Term, 1887, of the Criminal Court of New Hanover county. The indictment charged that the defendant “feloniously,, wilfully, maliciously and unlawfully did set fire to a certain house, used as a shop and store, then and there situate,” &c. On the trial there was a verdict of guilty. The defendant moved in arrest of judgment, assigning as grounds of the motion, first, that the indictment charges that the defendant “ did set fire to a certain house;” and secondly, that it does not charge the act to have been done “ wantonly and wil-fully.”…
1Opinion of the Court
MeRRIMON, J.,
(after stating the case). The defendant is charged in the indictment with a violation of the statute, (The Code, §985, par. 6,) as amended by the subsequent one (Acts 1885, ch. 66), which provides, as amended, that “whoever shall toantonly and wilfully set fire to any church, chapel or meeting-house, or shall wantonly and wilfully set fire to any stable, coach-house, out-house, warehouse, office, shop, mill, barn or granary, or to any building or erection used in carrying on any trade or manufacture, or any branch thereof, whether the same or any -of them respectively shall then…
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