State v. Parrish

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Hatcher, C.:

The defendant, C. C. Parrish, was charged with, and convicted of, burning insured property, the Parrish Hotel, Great Bend, Kansas, and the burning of the personal property of another.

On Sunday, October 8, 1967, a fire destroyed the Parrish Plotel. The hotel was owned by the defendant who was in Washington, D. C. on business the night the hotel burned.

The evidence connecting Parrish with the burning consisted largely of hearsay testimony of four principal witnesses. As the appeal challenges the propriety of this testimony it must be reviewed…