State v. Peabody

ARCHIBALD, Justice.

The defendant has appealed from his conviction after having been indicted, tried before a jury and found guilty of second degree arson. 17 M.R.S.A. § 162. 1 The appeal is premised upon three allegedly erroneous rulings by the Justice who presided at the trial. Appellant asserts that the Justice erred in these respects:(1) He refused to grant motions for a mistrial because, after permitting the jury to hear an oral statement made to the owner of the burned structure, he then ruled that the statement should be excluded for failure to give the so-called Miranda warning.(2) He…