State v. Bolling

Miller, Justice:

Gerald Lee Bolling was convicted of arson under W.Va. Code, 61-3-5, by the burning of his wife’s insured automobile, a 1974 Oldsmobile, with intent to injure or defraud the insurer. He assigns several errors which, for reasons set out herein, we deem insufficient to warrant a reversal of the case.

His first assignment, that the evidence was insufficient to support the jury verdict, is without merit. The legal standard for testing the sufficiency of the evidence to support a guilty verdict in a criminal trial was discussed in State v. Starkey, W. Va., 244 S.E.2d 219 (1978),…