State v. Fry

Defendant was indicted at the September term, 1894. There were two counts in the indictment. The first charged the defendant with burning a barn, the property of Stroud, in the possession of Bailey. The second charged him with burning the dwelling house of Stroud, in the possession of Bailey.

The verdict of the jury was returned at the January term, 1896, and was, in form, that they found the defendant guilty of arson, as charged in the indictment, and sentenced him to five years in the State penitentiary.

On appeal to the Supreme Court the judgment rendered upon this verdict was reversed and…