State v. Myers

Defendants in this cause were jointly indicted by the grand jury of McLeod county, and thereby charged with the crime of arson, alleged to have been committed in that county on the seventh day of June, 1921. Defendant Myers interposed a plea of guilty and was sentenced to a term in prison. Defendant Exsted pleaded not guilty, but on trial was convicted and now waits sentence on the verdict. He appealed from an order denying a new trial.

*243It appears that defendant Exsted owns several farms near Glencoe in McLeod county, which are occupied and carried on by tenants; on one of which defendant…