Staaden v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. H. H. Cody, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Nicholas Staaden, as follows: “First count—G-rand jurors present that Nicholas Staaden, late of Cook county, on the 28th day of July, A. D. 1874, in Cook county, Illinois, unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously and maliciously did set fire to a certain building therein situate, which said building was then and there used as and for a store and dwelling house,…
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of DuPage county; the Hon. H. H. Cody, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Nicholas Staaden, as follows: “First count—G-rand jurors present that Nicholas Staaden, late of Cook county, on the 28th day of July, A. D. 1874, in Cook county, Illinois, unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously and maliciously did set fire to a certain building therein situate, which said building was then and there used as and for a store and dwelling house, and which said building was then and there insured against loss by fire in and by the .¿Etna Insurance Company of…
1Opinion of the Court
Per Ctjbiam:
The indictment in this case was found under section 14, division 1, of the Criminal Code, and charges that plaintiff in error unlawfully, wilfully, feloniously and maliciously set fire to a building used as and for a store room and dwelling, which, building was insured against loss by fire in the .¿Etna Insurance Company of Hartford,- Connecticut, Avith intent to injure that insurance company, contrary to the form of the statute. E. S. 1874, p. 354, sec. 14.
One objection taken is fatal to the present indictment. It was necessary to aver the guilty intent, viz: that the building…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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