Reid

Defendant was tried upon an information charging the crime of arson. Prom the judgment following the verdict of conviction and from the denial of her motion for a new trial she has appealed upon a typewritten record.

The defendant occupied an apartment at 818 Stanyan Street in the city of San Prancisco. On June 21, 1924, at about 8:30 A. M. of that day, fire occurred in the apartment and members of the fire department appeared upon summons and extinguished the fire. Upon investigation it appeared that three separate fires had been set, two in a room designated as a living-room and a third in a closet of the bedroom adjoining; and an examination of the premises immediately thereafter disclosed that all the fires had been started by the use of coal-oil. As a result of this investigation the defendant was taken into custody and made a full statement to the police and fire department officials to the effect that she started the fires for the purpose of burning her furniture so that she could collect insurance thereon, but that she did not intend to burn the building. Upon the trial it appeared that the defendant claimed that while filling a lamp some coal-oil was spilled upon her…