ABSTRACT
ARSON. The prisoner was indicted for having, on 29 March 1846, feloniously set fire to a rick of wheat straw, the property of William Cox. It appeared that the rick was set on fire by the prisoner’s having fired a gun very near to it; and it was proposed on the part of the prosecution to go into evidence to shew that the rick had been on fire on 28 March, and that the prisoner was then close to it with a gun in his hand.
