Saunders

The defendant was accused by information of the crime of arson of the first degree. He was tried and convicted as charged. He moved for a new trial, which was denied, and he was thereupon sentenced to imprisonment in the state prison for the term of twenty years. This appeal is prosecuted from the judgment and from the order denying defendant’s motion for a new trial.

Defendant contends that the evidence is insufficient to support the verdict.

The record is long, but the facts, very briefly, are as follows : The defendant had been in the employ of the St. Luke’s Hospital as a porter for about two weeks when, on November 16, 1909, being under the influence of liquor, and being moreover generally unsatisfactory to the management of the hospital, he was discharged by the matron. Although discharged at about 5 o’clock in the afternoon of that day and repeatedly requested thereafter to leave the premises, he did not do so, and was arrested and removed by police officers at about 12 o ’clock that night. On the way to- the police station he abused, the doctors and nurses of the hospital, and told the officer in charge of the patrol'wagon that he would “get even.” The next day, upon…