State v. Turner

Turner appeals from convictions and sentence on five counts of first degree and one count of second degree arson.

Two claims are made. Both are without merit.

The appellant claims that a “confession” was improperly admitted in evidence. The admission, erroneously characterized as a “confession,” came in the testimony of Captain Gillespie respecting a conversation with the appellant on the night he was apprehended. When appellant told Gilles pie that he did not know where he was when the fires occurred, Gillespie responded by saying that appellant could not then deny setting the fires.

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