People v. Principe

Defendants were informed against by the district attorney for the crime of arson, the burning being alleged to have been that of a building in which there were at the time human beings and as having occurred in the night-time. The jury returned a verdict finding both defendants guilty, and determined the crime to be of the first degree. A judgment directing the imprisonment of defendants for a long period of years followed, and this appeal was taken from that judgment and from an order made denying the motion of defendants for a new trial. The principal contention made by appellants on this…