People v. Murray

Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting him of arson in the first degree as a second offense. He was sentenced to imprisonment in Attica State Prison for a minimum of forty and a maximum of fifty years. Proof was given that he had been convicted in the Superior Court of Dedham, Mass., April 20, 1927, for assault with intent to commit rape. No other previous conviction was proven, though he was indicted as a third offender.

The fire occurred in the city of Binghamton at about eight o’clock in the evening of April 9, 1938, in the Moon Block on the *417westerly side of Chenango street (No. 133)…