People v. Seymour

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Franklin County (Plumadore, J.), rendered February 28,1983, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of arson in the second degree and attempted arson in the second degree. H On August 3, 1982, after a day of continuous drinking, defendant and a friend threw three ignited Molotov cocktails (bottles filled with gasoline or fuel oil and stuffed with a rag to act as a wick) at a house trailer where defendant’s former girlfriend, Maureen Minard, was then living with a man named Larry La Grave. The evidence showed that defendant actually threw…