State v. Rome
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Criminal Prosecution for arson in the Superior Court in Fairfield County; tried to the jury before JNamersley, J., The accused was convicted and sentenced, and appealed for alleged errors of the court in its charge to the jury.
1Opinion of the CourtFenn, J.
The appellant was tried and convicted in the Superior Court for Fairfield County upon an information charging him with the crime of arson.
Upon the trial the State offered no direct evidence of the act of setting fire to the building burned, but relied upon facts and circumstances claimed to have been proved to establish the guilt of the accused. The reasons of appeal, *331seven in number, relate solely to alleged errors in the charge of the court to the jury. These reasons present in effect three claims: First, to use the language of the appellant’s brief, that the court erred in giving to the…
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