State v. Colton

SOMERVILLE, Judge.

Defendant, charged with arson of a motor vehicle in violation of Section 560.025, RSMo 1969, was found guilty by a jury as charged and his punishment was fixed by it at two years confinement in the Department of Corrections.

Defendant’s premise for appellate relief is threefold: (1) that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence a confession he made to law enforcement personnel “without requiring the state to introduce sufficient evidence of the corpus delicti of the crime of arson”; (2) that the trial court erred in admitting into evidence an extrajudicial oral…