PEOPLE v. READE


13 N.Y.2d 42 (1963)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. David Reade, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 6, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Schuster for appellant.

John M. Braisted, Jr., District Attorney (Thomas R. Sullivan of counsel), for respondent.

Chief Judge DESMOND and Judges DYE, VAN VOORHIS, BURKE, FOSTER and SCILEPPI concur.


FULD, J.

In this arson prosecution, the defendant had confessed to deliberately starting a fire, and the principal question presented is whether the record contains the "additional proof" required by statute to warrant his conviction.

The fire, for the setting of which the defendant was indicted, occurred on February 25, 1959 in a three-story rooming house where the defendant was then living as a tenant...

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