Commonwealth v. Smith

Opinion by

Parker, J.,

It was alleged in the information filed in this case, dated March 13, 1931, that Molly K. Smith caused a building in the Borough of Everett, occupied as a restaurant and residence to be burned on November 8, 1930, “by counselling and procuring the aid and hiring one Thomas M. Fisher to set fire to and burn and destroy” the said building. Thereafter, she was indicted, tried and convicted of arson.

Thomas M. Fisher was first apprehended and taken by a private detective and two state troopers to the barracks at Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, where there was obtained from him a…