Henderson purchased an acre of property two miles out side the city limits with the intent to build a house. While he was building the house, he was living in a used mobile home he had moved to his property
One night, Maxwell set fire to the mobile home and it was destroyed. Henderson was not in the mobile home at the time. A charge of arson against Maxwell would be: a. improper because a mobile home cannot be a dwelling.
b. improper because the fire occurred outside the city limits.
c. proper because the mobile home was used as a dwelling.
d. proper because the mobile home was destroyed.
c
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