State v. Varsalona

COIL, Commissioner.

Paul Varsalona and Sam Legrotte, defendants below, have appealed from a judgment sentencing them to the state penitentiary in accordance with a verdict finding them “guilty of arson as charged” and fixing their punishment at two years.

Defendants’ initial contention is that the information upon which they were tried was fatally defective in that it failed to charge them with an offense and that, consequently, the evidence adduced tending to prove the charges of the information failed to constitute proof of any crime. That contention must be sustained for the reasons which…