State v. Humpherys

KIDWELL, Justice.

This appeal arises from a judgment of conviction for first degree arson. Appellant claims that since the verdict was supported largely by circumstantial evidence, the district court erred in refusing to give a special jury instruction pertaining to the use and limitation of circumstantial evidence. We disagree.

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FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Early on the morning of April 24,1998, the Mountain Home Fire Department responded to a fire call at a trailer house occupied by Nelly I. Humpherys and her daughter. The trailer house was owned by Humpherys’ estranged husband, who allowed…