Commonwealth v. Jaunes

Opinion by Stadtfeld, J.,

This is an appeal by defendant from the sentence and judgment of the court on a conviction on an indictment for arson.

Wilbur Jaunes and his wife, Anna Jaunes, were the lessees of a building known as the Indian Orchard Hotel located on a much traveled highway, (U. S. Route 6), about two miles from Honesdale, in Wayne County, Pa., where they conducted a hotel and restaurant business and sold liquor under a license issued by the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board. They resided in Canaan, which is approximately ten miles from the said hotel.

On September 27,1938, Jaunes…