State v. Caliendo

At the June Term, 1938, of the Superior Court for Oxford County the respondent was tried for arson and found guilty. After verdict, his motion for a new trial, addressed to the presiding Justice, was denied and his appeal from that ruling is before the Law Court. The question presented is whether upon all the evidence the jury were warranted in finding beyond a reasonable doubt that the respondent was guilty of the crime charged in the indictment.

The printed case brought forward with the appeal shows that just before one o’clock in the morning of March 26,1938, fires were discovered in the…