Seward v. State

This is an appeal by James P. Seward, appellant, from a judgment and sentence by the trial judge, sitting without a jury, for malicious destruction of property.

The appellant was indicted, together with James L. Fieser, Jr., in two indictments. The first charged them with statutory arson on May 22, 1954. The second indictment, among other things, charged them with malicious destruction of property on the same date. The appellant was convicted on the third count of the second indictment for malicious destruction of property, the air conditioning unit tower owned by Hot Shoppe, Inc., in…