State v. Wedemann

FOSPIEIM, Chief Justice (on reassignment).

Defendant Hubert Lawson Wedemann was convicted of arson in the second degree.1 We affirm.

Defendant claims: (1) the evidence was insufficient to support the verdict; (2) the trial court should not have admitted evidence of his association with earlier fires; and (3) the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury that mere presence at the scene of the crime is not enough evidence to convict.

In determining the sufficiency of evidence the test on appeals in criminal cases is whether there is evidence in the record which, if believed by the jury,…