PEOPLE v. JONES

Docket No. B026530.

199 Cal.App.3d 543 (1988)

245 Cal. Rptr. 85

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. ANDREW JONES, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Seven.

March 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

George L. Schraer, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant.

John K. Van de Kamp, Attorney General, Steve White, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Marc E. Turchin and Maria J. Perez, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

JOHNSON, J.

Defendant was convicted of setting fire to an inhabited structure, the most serious form of arson. (See Pen. Code, § 451, subd. (b).) The house he set fire to was the one he and others had been evicted from the day before. The sole question on appeal is whether, at the time of the fire, the house was "inhabited" as defined in Penal Code section 450, subdivision...

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