People v. Watkins
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, George Watkins, from a judgment of the County Court of Rockland county, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Kings upon the verdict of a jury convicting him of the crime of arson in the third degree, upon which the defendant was sentenced to be imprisoned in the State prison at Sing Sing at hard labor for the term of two years.
1Opinion of the Court
Hatch, J.:
The defendant was indicted for the crime of arson in the third degree, in that on or about the 14th day of January, 1896, at the ' village of Nyack, in the county of Rockland, he did willfully and feloniously burn and set on fire a certain building owned by Tunis De Pew and occupied by Melvina Thayer. The building claimed to have been fired by the defendant was a shoddy factory, so called, in which, prior to the fire, the defendant had been employed as an engineer and subsequently as a watchman, and in which, at the time of the fire, he had a lawful right to be.
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