Carter v. State

. Jones, E. H., J.

Thomas J. Carter, plaintiff in error, was found guilty of arson and sentenced to the penitentiary. The building burned was located at the southwest corner of Pearl and Sycamore streets in the city of Cincinnati. At the time of the fire it was occupied and used by Carter as a drugstore, he having bought a stock of goods located in said building some time prior to the fire.

Carter was convicted entirely upon circumstantial evidence. The state relied for conviction upon a number of alleged suspicious circumstances. In a general way these suspicious facts and circumstances might…