People v. Jenkins

The defendant was tried before a jury and found guilty of arson in the second degree as charged in the information. By the judgment he was sentenced to be confined in the state prison. The defendant appeals from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The information charged that the defendant on the fifth day of October, 1923, in the county of San Diego, did, with intent to destroy, willfully, etc., set fire to and cause to be burned, a certain building, to wit, a dwelling-house known as 3290 Wabash Avenue, situated in the city of East San Diego, in said county;…