State v. Berkowitz

Defendant was charged with and convicted of the crime of arson in the second degree. His punishment was fixed by the. jury at imprisonment in the state penitentiary for three years,, and he. has appealed; -

•As .the, sufficiency of the evidence to authorize conviction is strenuously, challenged,. a rather full statement -of facts is required. .The evidence was wholly circumstantial. Defendant operated a shoe store and shoe-repair shop on the first .floor of a building at the corner of Hodiamont Avenue and Horton Street, in St. Louis, known as 1048 Hodiamont Avenue. .With his wife and two…