Aggravated arson consists of the wilful [willful] or malicious damaging by any explosive substance or the wilful [willful] or malicious setting fire to any bridge, aircraft, watercraft, vehicle, pipe line [pipeline], utility line, communication line or structure, railway structure, private or public building, dwelling or other structure, causing a person great bodily harm.
Whoever commits aggravated arson is guilty of a second degree felony.
History: 1953 Comp., § 40A-17-6, enacted by Laws 1963, ch. 303, § 17-6.
ANNOTATIONSBracketed material. — The bracketed material was inserted by the compiler and is not part of the law.
Cross references. — For meaning of "great bodily harm", see 30-1-12 NMSA 1978.
Law reviews. — For article, "The Confusing Law of Criminal Intent in New Mexico," see 5 N.M.L. Rev. 63 (1974).
Am. Jur. 2d, A.L.R. and C.J.S. references. — Vacancy or nonoccupancy of building as affecting its character as "dwelling" as regards arson, 44 A.L.R.2d 1456.
What constitutes "burning" to justify charge of arson, 28 A.L.R.4th 482.
Pyromania and the criminal law, 51 A.L.R.4th 1243.