State v. Goldman

The defendant was convicted of arson in the second degree and appeals. There are two questions: (1) Whether the evidence sustains a finding of the commission of the crime of arson. (2) Whether it sustains the findings that the defendant committed the crime.

On the night of January 27, 1925, about 11 o’clock, a house at No. 815 Sheridan avenue, Minneapolis, where the defendant had lived for a. few months, was burned from the inside. The doors were locked. The firemen unlocked the front door with a skeleton key. A chair was blocked against it, hinged under the door knob. There were two or more…