State v. Bertoldi

OPINION

MURRAY, Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendant, Giulio Bertoldi, from a jury conviction of first-degree arson. He was sentenced by the trial justice to forty years’ imprisonment, thirty years to serve and ten years suspended. Before we consider the defendant’s assignments of error, we briefly set forth the factual background of this case.

*249The state’s evidence below showed that defendant had enlisted Kevin Cimino (Cimi-nc), who was then fifteen years old, to set fire to a residential apartment house owned by defendant in order that he could collect the insurance proceeds. The house…