Arnold v. State

We granted the state's petition for writ of certiorari because it was asserted the the Court of Criminal Appeals,353 So.2d 520, wrongly decided a case of first impression.

That court held that the trial court erroneously allowed the defendant's ex-wife to testify, over the defendant's objection, to (1) a telephone conversation between the defendant and a third party accomplice which was overheard by the ex-wife; and (2) that on the day following the fire for which the defendant was convicted of arson, she and the defendant drove his mother's car by the burned house to view the damage. The…