People v. Van Blarcum
2 Johns. 105 | N.Y. Sup. Ct. | 1806
If one be indicted for burning the dioelL ing-house of another, it is sufficient, if it be, in fact, the
Motion denied.
Occupation of the dwelling house seems.suflicient; probably upon the same reason that possession of stolen goods before-the felony is sufficient to lay them in the indictment, as the property of the person from whose possession they were stoloD, and no enquiry can bo made into the title of the possessor of such goods. ’ -