People v. Giacamella

The defendant was accused of the crime of an attempt to commit arson, the information alleging that the “ defendant did in the night-time of said day willfully, maliciously, and feloniously attempt to burn, with intent then and there to destroy, a building,” the property of, etc. No demurrer was interposed. The defendant was convicted of an attempt to commit arson in the second degree; and moved in arrest of judgment, on the ground that the information did not state facts sufficient to constitute a public offense, in that the information contained none of the definitions set forth in section…