State v. Demopoulos

Defendant was convicted of arson and appeals from the order denying a new trial.

Before the trial was begun, defendant made a motion to require the state to elect whether it “will attempt to prove under the indictment in said matter at the trial of said action (a) that defendant set the building referred to therein on fire himself or (b) that he procured the setting of said fire by another.” The motion was denied. State v. Whitman, 103 Minn. 92, 114 N. W. 363, 14 Ann. Cas. 309, sustains the ruling, and no more need be said on that point.

Defendant was a tenant of the store and basement…