State v. Bunton

HOUSER, Commissioner.

Glen Calvin Bunton, convicted of arson and committed to the department of corrections for three years, has appealed, contending that the court should have directed a verdict of acquittal on the ground that the State failed to prove that the fire was of incendiary origin and failed to prove the criminal agency of defendant.

Stated in the light most favorable to the State, the evidence shows the following: A large, old, unoccupied building known as “The Grotto,” located in the country southwest' of Newburg in Phelps County, was destroyed by fire on September 21, 1968. That…