People v. Fisher
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Henry H. Fisher, from a judgment of the County Court of Ulster county, rendered on the 21st day of ¡November, 1908, convicting the defendant of the crime of arson in the second degree, and also from an order entered in the office of the clerk of said county on the 21st day of December, 1908, denying the defendant’s motion for a new trial.
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, P. J.:
The defendant was indicted by the grand jury of Ulster county for the crime of arson in the second degree, in that on ■the 17th day of March, 1908, he set fire and burned his dwelling house in the city of Kingston with intent to destroy the same, in which dwelling house at the time there was no human being. In that month the defendant kept a saloon at the corner of Chambers and Union streets, in the city of Kingston, and his family lived upstairs above the saloon. Upon the night in question one Sessler, together with one Jacob Banholzer, at the direction of the defendant, set…
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