People v. Maas

Appeal by defendant from a conviction of having feloniously burned grass, woods, brush-covered land and slashing which were not his property, and from the order denying his motion for a new trial. His application for probation having been denied, he was remanded to the custody of the sheriff pending his acceptance by the Youth Authority.

He bases his appeal on two propositions, to wit:(1) Prejudicial error in the court’s refusal to exclude the testimony of the witness Erhart as to appellant’s confession prior to a demonstration of the corpus delicti; (2) prejudicial error in allowing expert…