People v. Thornton

SHAW, J., pro tem.

The appellant, Mrs. Agnes Thornton, was tried upon an information containing two counts, the first charging her and one Bobby Clark with arson, and the second charging the same persons with burning insured property with intent to defraud an insurance company. The arson charged in the first count was the burning of a dwelling-house at 3615 Paloma Street, in the city of Los Angeles, and the second count charged the burning of the same dwelling-house and the contents thereof, all upon the twenty-seventh day of July, 1926. At the trial the information was dismissed as to Bobby…