Morley

Appeal by defendants from a conviction and an order denying a new trial.

The information filed charged the defendants jointly “of the crime of arson committed as follows”: That said parties (naming them) “on the 3d day of August, 1907, at and in the county of Los Angeles, state of California, did willfully, unlawfully and feloniously and maliciously burn, injure, and destroy certain property, to wit: certain household furniture' and other personal effects then and there in house (premises described), which was then and there the property of Henry Sanderson, and was then and there insured against loss and damage by fire by the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, a corporation, with intent, then and thereby to defraud, prejudice and damage the said Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, a corporation; contrary,” etc.

A demurrer to the information was overruled. A joint trial followed which resulted in a verdict as follows: “We, the jury in the above-entitled action, find the defendants guilty of willfully and maliciously burning the personal property named in the information with intent to defraud the insurance company as charged in the information.”

Defendants moved in arrest…