State v. Clark

DURHAM, Justice:

The appellants and defendants, Anne Clark and Allan Savage, appeal their convictions for the offense of aggravated arson, U.C.A., 1953, § 76-6-103. The evidence presented at trial indicated that the firemen called to Clark’s home at 1:06 a.m. observed circumstances, such as fire springing up directly from a concrete floor and empty Coleman fuel cans, which suggested that fire accelerant had been used. Two fire and explosion experts investigated the fire and testified that the fire was probably started by the furnace pilot light igniting a flammable petroleum product which had…