State v. Rudman

— The defendant was charged by information in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis with arson in the second degree, in that, April 25, 1928, he set fire- to a certain storehouse at 4414 Natural Bridge Avenue in St. Louis, a building adjoining a dwelling house inhabited and occupied by one William Gruenekemeier and bis wife Victoria Gruenekemeier. On a trial, October 29, 1929, defendant was found guilty as charged, his punishment assessed at three year’s imprisonment in the penitentiary, and he appealed from the judgment following.

The Gruenekemeiers lived in the second story of a…