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After serving 435 days on arson charges arising from the 1980 Halloween night burning of C. E. Johnson’s bams in Sperryville, Robert Clarence “Pete” Martin was ordered released on February 17 by Judge Shore Robertson.
In May, 1981, a jury found Martin guilty of five counts of arson in the destruction of a horse bam, grainery, pump house, hay bam and personal property belonging to the Johnson family. But in September, Judge Robertson set aside four of the guilty verdicts on grounds that there was “substantial uncertainty” as to whether the Commonwealth proceeded properly by issuing five indictments instead of one.
Baumgardner then sought and obtained from the grand jury a new indictment, combining the burning of the four bams into a single charge. The jury trail requested by Martin was set for three weeks ago on Feb
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