Thornton

The appellant, Mrs. Agnes Thornton, was tried upon an information containing two counts, the first charging her and one Bobby Clark with arson, and the second charging the same persons with burning insured property with intent to defraud an insurance company. The arson charged in the first count was the burning of a dwelling-house at 3615 Paloma Street, in the city of Los Angeles, and the second count charged the burning of the same dwelling-house and the contents thereof, all upon the twenty-seventh day of July, 1926. At the trial the information was dismissed as to Bobby Clark and she testified for the prosecution. Appellant was convicted upon both counts, the verdict specifying that the arson was of the first degree, and she appeals from the judgment. No briefs have been filed by either side, and we are dependent for information as to the grounds of appeal upon the oral argument and appellant’s written application to the trial court for a transcript.

The evidence shows that appellant was the owner of the house referred to in the information, and of its contents, and that it was occupied as a residence by appellant, by Bobby Clark, and by appellant’s two year old grandson, and…