Jones v. State

Citations

• 70 Ohio St. (N.S.) 36

Syllabus

<p>Burning property with intent to prejudice insurer — Section 6882, Revised Statutes — Property of value of fifty dollars — Elements of crime — Sufficient that insurer who burns have interest in property — Criminal law.</p> <p>It is not essential to the crime defined by section 6832, Revised Statutes, which makes it a crime to maliciously burn any building, of the value of fifty dollars, the same being his own property, and insured against loss or damage by fire, with the intent to prejudice the insurer, that the building be the sole property of the person who burns it or that the value of his property in it be fifty dollars; it is sufficient that he has an estate in it and that the building be of the value of fifty dollars, and an indictment charging the building as of the value of more than fifty dollars and as the property of the accused is, in respect to those elements of the crime, sufficient.</p>