Fairbanks v. State

CATES, Judge.

Second degree arson: three years. Code 1940, T. 14, § 24.

I

The defendant and others first discussed getting gasoline with the purpose of pouring it on a street surface opposite a juvenile dance hall. After setting a fire the conspirators proposed, “to call the Fire Department and tell them we’re burning up the place.”

However, two of the band rejected this. The defendant, one of the others testified:

“A Yes, he said, ‘Let’s burn Finch’s out’, so there wasn’t nobody said nothing, and then he said, who was going to help him, or something like that, and then we went on, everybody said…