People v. Severance

The respondent was convicted in the Ingham. circuit court, before a jury, with having willfully and maliciously destroyed and injured a certain building, to wit, the boat-house of one Reuben E. Brackett, situated in Grand river, at the foot of Lenawee street east, in the city of Lansing, by sawing said building in two, and tearing off the west end of the same, the building having been damaged, as alleged, to the amount of $25. The action against the respondent was brought for the violation of section 11581, 3 Comp. Laws 1897, which provides:

“Every person who shall willfully and maliciously…