State v. Kitchen

HALL, Justice:

Defendant appeals from conviction of the offense of aiding and abetting the filing of a false insurance claim, a felony of the second degree, as provided by Section 76-6-521, Utah Code Annotated 1953. He assigns as error the court’s acceptance of claimed uncorroborated testimony of an accomplice and insufficiency of the evidence to support the jury verdict.

The pertinent facts are as follows. One Lynn Christiansen’s home was burglarized and he thereafter filed a claim with his insurance carrier, National American Life Insurance Company, for a loss of $140 cash, a stereo, jewelry…