State v. Barnett

DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.

After a jury trial in Superior Court, Pe-nobscot County, the defendant John Barnett was convicted of arson, a Class A crime, 17-A M.R.S.A. § 802.1 He now appeals to the Law Court, contending that the justice presiding at his trial committed reversible error in permitting one of the State’s witnesses to give opinion testimony. Finding no error in the trial court’s ruling, we affirm the judgment of conviction.

The defendant was indicted for arson by a Penobscot County grand jury on August 3, 1981, and brought to trial on July 20, 1982. The evidence showed that a…