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PEOPLE v. PEARSON

Docket No. 56966.

123 Mich. App. 462 (1983)

332 N.W.2d 574

PEOPLE v. PEARSON

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided February 24, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, Gerald D. Warner, Prosecuting Attorney, and Judith K. Simonson, Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Vander Ploeg, Mullally & Grimm (by Jack M. Grimm), for defendant.

Before: R.B. BURNS, P.J., and MacKENZIE and T.L. BROWN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

Defendant was convicted by a jury of burning real property, MCL 750.73; MSA 28.268. He appeals and we affirm.

The prosecution's case consisted entirely of circumstantial evidence. The prosecutor's theory of the case was that defendant had set fire to his restaurant in order to get out of debt. Although defendant could not have received any insurance proceeds from the fire, because his indebtedness

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