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STATE v. SWANSON

No. C4-83-498.

353 N.W.2d 128 (1984)

STATE of Minnesota, Respondent, v. Angelita SWANSON, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

August 24, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Ostgard, St. Paul, for appellant.

Hubert H. Humphrey, III, Atty. Gen., Norman B. Coleman Jr., James B. Early, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., St. Paul, John K. Carlson, Pine County Atty., Pine City, for respondent.

Considered and decided by the court en banc without oral argument.

PETERSON, Justice.

Defendant and her boyfriend, Dennis Hampeys, were charged by separate indictments in Pine County with committing arson in the first degree, Minn.Stat. § 609.561, subd. 1 (1982). The charges were based on evidence that defendant and Hampeys intentionally set fire to defendant's bar, where defendant and Hampeys also resided, in order to collect insurance money. After defendant was found guilty by a district court jury, Hampeys, who did not testify...

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