State v. Wilcox

— The appellant was charged by information with the crime of wilfully, unlawfully, and feloniously setting fire to and burning a certain sawmill building, belonging to the Wilcox Lumber & Logging Company, located in King county, Washington. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, and from sentence thereupon defendant has appealed.

Samuel C. Brown and Fred C. Pesha, as witnesses for the state, testified that they were interested ivith the appellant in the Wilcox Lumber & Logging Company ; and that, a day or two before the fire, appellant had told them that the company was in financial straits…