People v. Whitlock
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Elizabeth Whitlock, from a judgment of the County Court of Tompkins county, rendered against her on the 12th day of October, 1917, convicting her of the crime of arson in the third degree.
1Opinion of the Court
Woodward, J.:
The defendant has been convicted of the crime of arson in the third degree. She is a woman, forty-three years of age, and at the time of the alleged crime was living with her husband on a farm a short distance from the scene of the fire, which occurred on the farm of James Kintz, at Meyers, N. Y. It is assumed that the fire was of incendiary origin. The prosecution, after showing the facts indicating an incendiary origin of the fire, produced evidence tending to show that tracks were found in a plowed field near the scene of the fire; that a pair of rubber overshoes found at the…
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