Supreme Judicial Court of Maine August 8, 1979 (State v. Porter)

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ARCHIBALD, Justice.

Carlson Porter was indicted by the Ken-nebec County Grand Jury for arson, the indictment charging:

THE GRAND JURY CHARGES: On or about the eighteenth day of July, 1977, at East Benton, in the County of Kennebec and State of Maine, Carlson Porter did start, cause or maintain a fire on his own property, to wit, a one story frame dwelling, located on the Hanscom Road, in