People v. Sellinger

The defendants have been convicted of the crime of arson in the second degree upon an indictment which charges that on March 24, 1933, in the county of Kings they willfully burned and set on fire a dwelling house in the night time. They insist that they have been so prejudiced by the reception of illegal evidence as to have been denied a trial in conformity to law.

The dwelling referred to in the indictment was a frame structure at No. 648 East Forty-eighth street, Brooklyn. At about ten o’clock on the night of March 24, 1933, it was razed by an explosion. The ruins caught fire and were…