State v. Ingram

A demurrer was sustained to an indictment, which, omitting the formal, opening recitals, reads as follows: “That J. J. Ingram in said county, on the 10th day of February, A. D. 1932, did then and there wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously set fire to and burn a building to-wit: A dwelling house of Mrs. Bessie Carter Ingram, the said building being at the time insured against damages and loss by fire under a contract of insurance issued by the Hartford Fire Insurance Company, a foreign corporation, with intent then and there to prejudice and injure the said insurer, the Hartford Fire Insurance…