State v. Holt

The defendant, Kenneth G. Holt, was convicted by a jury on an indictment charging conspiracy to commit arson, RSA 629:3, and was sentenced by the Superior Court (Johnson, J.) to a term of one and one-half to three years in the State prison. The sole issue on appeal is whether the evidence presented at trial was sufficient to prove all the elements of the offense charged beyond a reasonable doubt. We affirm.

From the evidence presented at trial, the jury could have found the following facts:

The defendant’s home was damaged by fire on April 24, 1981. Four months earlier, he had been divorced…