State v. Frankland

The opinion of the court was delivered

Pee Cueiam.

After a jury trial in the Bergen County Court the defendant was convicted of willfully setting fire to a motor vehicle in violation of N. J. S. 2A:89-2. At the trial the defendant testified that he was too intoxicated at the time of the alleged offense to recall his activities. Notwithstanding this claim of lack of memory due to'imtoxication, the defendant denied committing the act. Two police officers testified that at 2:00 o’clock in the morning of March 13, 1965, they followed the defendant, whom they had under surveillance, into an…