State v. Caruolo

OPINION

WEISBERGER, Justice.

This case comes before us on the defendant’s appeal from a conviction of first-degree arson entered in the Superior Court after a jury trial. We affirm the conviction. The facts pertinent to the defendant’s appeal are as follows.

During the course of their individual patrols on the night of January 13, 1981, two police officers met inadvertently in the parking lot behind Bill Izzi’s Big Discount Market. When an exterior light on the building went out, one of the officers noted that it was nine o’clock and commented that the market had probably just closed. Three…