Guyton v. State

Defendant-appellant William D. Guyton appeals from a first degree arson conviction by the trial court sitting without a jury.

Guyton argues that testimonial conclusions from an arson investigator were erroneously admitted into evidence in that sufficient expertise was not established to qualify the witness as an expert. He assigns as further error the overruling of his motion for mistrial after the court had stricken from the record reference to a “confession” obtained in contravention of the Miranda doctrine. He concludes his argument by claiming that the evidence was insufficient to sustain…