Commonwealth v. Smith

Opinion by

Parker, J.,

The defendant having; been convicted and sentenced on a charge of arson appealed to this court, when a new trial was ordered (105 Pa. Superior Ct. 497, 161 A. 418). She was again tried and convicted of the same crime and from the sentence thereon has appealed a second time to this court. . The questions raised here are within a narrow compass, appellant contending that the corpus delicti was not proven by competent evidence.

The indictment, substantially in the words of the Act of April 25, 1929, P. L. 769, §1 (18 PS 3021), charged that Mollie Smith wilfully, maliciously,…