State v. Small

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

Defendant appeals from his conviction in the Superior Court, Somerset County, on three counts of arson “with the intent . to collect insurance proceeds,” 17-A M.R. S.A. § 802(1)(B)(1).1 He asserts error in three evidentiary rulings made at trial and challenges the legality of the sentencing proceedings. We deny the appeal.

The jury could have found from the evidence that defendant had agreed to pay $2,000 to one Robert Garland to set fire to defendant’s trailer home in North Anson, along with an automobile and a skidder used in his logging operation, at a time when…