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- Title: James K. Jacinth v. State Alaska
- Author : Supreme Court of Alaska
- Release Date : January 06, 1979
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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RABINOWITZ, Justice. OPINION. James Jacinth was convicted of second degree arson 1 and manslaughter 2 in superior court. In bringing this appeal he asserts that evidence corroborating his confession was insufficient to justify submitting the case to the jury; that the jury's verdict was contrary to the weight of the evidence; and that the sentence of ten years on each count, to run consecutively, is excessive. We affirm. This prosecution arose out of a fire that completely destroyed a Fairbanks bar and adult theater known as The City in 1973. The first of two fires that occurred at the premises of The City was detected sometime before midnight on September 9; it was extinguished to the satisfaction of University of Alaska firemen who responded to the call. Around 4:00 a.m. on September 10 a second fire broke out, which consumed the building and claimed the life of Pete Aiken, Jr., who lived on the premises. Jacinth, in statements to some five different people, 3 claimed responsibility for the fires - on some occasions saying that he had set two fires, and on other occasions that he had started only the earlier one. At trial, though, he denied his guilt and claimed that he had fabricated the confessions on the basis of newspaper accounts. At the time of his arrest, appellant was indigent and said he wanted to go to jail to publicize certain inJustices he felt he had suffered at the hands of the state.
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