People v. Burlingame

R. N. Burlingame, respondent, was convicted of arson. He owned and conducted a drug store on, the ground floor of a two-story building in Albion, Michigan. The suite of rooms over the store had been continuously vacant for a long period previous to April 22, 1931. On the evening of that day a fire broke out in one of the rooms. A fire had visited respondent’s store in 1928 and again in 1930. The first originated in either an adjoining building or the wall partitioning off another store theretofore occupied by him in the same block; the other occurred in the present store. Both times there…