People v. Pelkey

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Madison County (Kepner, Jr., J.), rendered March 28,1983, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crime of arson in the third degree. H On May 2,1982, a 1975 Oldsmobile automobile owned by Dawn Haskell was taken from where she had parked it and was later found gutted by fire along the bank of the Chittenango Creek in Madison County. After conducting a preliminary investigation of the incident, the authorities believed that Paul Haskell, the then separated husband of Dawn Haskell, was involved and that defendant may have provided some type of…